Genre and Like

Genre

Genre noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

Usage example: the novel's hero is of a different genre than the traditional kind

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Like and genre are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead a noun "Genre".

Like noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

Usage example: you can never trust his like, because they'll always let you down

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Genre and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Genre" instead a noun "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

old	old genre	old like
similar	similar genre	similar like
certain	certain genre	certain like
many	many genre	many like
Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, serious, new, different, comic, modern, magical, western.

Games like Max Payne, Syphon Filter, and SOCOMUS Navy Seals, changed that, so it was its own genre (albeit a sister genre to FPS).

Source: From Clones to Genre
Mai-HiME starts out looking like a postmodern take on the Magical Girl genre, then turns into something disturbingly like Highlander.

Source: Genre Shift / Anime and Manga
Jess Fink comments on it in a comic for Oh Boy, Sex Toy, asking why porn can't also contain important messages or good plots like any other genre.

Source: Webcomic / Chester 5000 XYV

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