music genre

1. 1.

   an expressive style of music

   Synonymsmusical genregenremusical style

   Broaderexpressive stylemusic

   Narrowerblack musicclassical musicreligious musicmarching musicpopular music

Questions about music genre

What does music genre mean?

music genre means "an expressive style of music".

What is another word for music genre?

Close synonyms include musical genre, genre, musical style. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is music genre a common word?

music genre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.