musical genre

1. 1.

   an expressive style of music

   Synonymsmusic genregenremusical style

   Broaderexpressive stylemusic

   Narrowerblack musicclassical musicreligious musicmarching musicpopular music

Questions about musical genre

What does musical genre mean?

musical genre means "an expressive style of music".

What is another word for musical genre?

Close synonyms include music 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 musical genre a common word?

musical 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.