subgenre

noun

sub·genre ˈsəb-ˌzhän-rə

-ˌzhäⁿ-;

-ˌzhäⁿr;

-ˌjän-rə

variants or less commonly sub-genre

plural subgenres also sub-genres

: a genre that is part of a larger genre

The series is part of the booming "urban fantasy" subgenre, which features supernatural creatures interacting with ordinary humans in a contemporary city.—

Jennifer Schuessler

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As a teen in Detroit, an originator of a dark hip-hop subgenre left an imprint on the music industry. —

Annalise Frank, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024 Entertainment Weekly looks back on classic, outré, and largely forgotten examples of the horror subgenre. —

EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024 Even familiar subgenres popularized in the ’70s were given a new vibrancy in films like Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (2015), which looked at grief through the lens of a suicide cult, just as cult personalities attempted to control America. —

Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024 This literary subgenre has arguably been around since the dawn of written material but didn’t emerge as a distinct sector of scholarship and pedagogy until roughly the 1980s. —

Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for subgenre