subgenre
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of several categories within a particular genre.
Example Sentences
- "You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre."
- "Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English genre English subgenre From sub- + genre.