Red Space Rocket

I thought I knew what both genre and oeuvre meant but then I wondered since I thought they meant basically the same thing.

So I did what any similarly slack person would do and asked a French teacher.

oeuvre (n) The sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.

genre (n) A type or class

So in fact they mean quite different things. Now I know and I guess so do you.