stereotype
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stereotype
- /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ UK
- /ˈstɪə.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/ UK
- /ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/ Canada, US
- [ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp] Canada, US
- /ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/ Canada, US
- [ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp] Canada, US
- /ˌstiɹ.joˈtaɪp/ Philippines
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
noun stereotypes
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people). Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.
- A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
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A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
Similar: cliché
- An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
verb stereotypes · stereotyping · stereotyped
- To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. Unable to ascertain what is in the minds of so many individuals, he must try to simplify his problems by eliminating individual differences: he must try to control and stereotype interests and beliefs by education and propaganda.
- To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of. to stereotype the Bible
- To print from a stereotype.
- To make firm or permanent; to fix. Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
adjective
- Of an edition: printed in stereotype. At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
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Synonym of stereotyped.
It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, w
Similar: stereotyped
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: stamp, pigeonhole, imaginable, conceivable, bias, cliche, cliché, assertion, prejudice, label, oversimplification, assumption, preconception, generalization, typification, caricature
Translations
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noun conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image
| Español | estereotipo, tópico |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 고정관념 gojeonggwannyeom |
| 日本語 | ステレオタイプ sutereotaipu |
| 中文 | 刻板印象 kèbǎn yìnxiàng |
| Português | estereótipo |
| Français | stéréotype |
| Deutsch | Stereotyp, Klischee, (psych.) Rollenklischee |
| Italiano | stereotipo |
| Ελληνικά | στερεότυπο stereótypo |
| Română | stereotip |
| Русский | стереоти́п stereotíp, клише́ klišé |
| العربية | صُورَة نَمَطِيَّة ṣūra namaṭiyya |
| עברית | סְטֵרֵאוֹטִיפּ steryotíp, סטריאוטיפ steryotíp |
noun printing plate
| Español | estereotipo |
|---|---|
| Français | cliché |
| Deutsch | Stereotypie |
| Ελληνικά | στερεοτυπία stereotypía |
noun extensibility mechanism of UML
| Español | estereotipo |
|---|---|
| Português | estereótipo |
| Français | stéréotype |
| Deutsch | Stereotyp |
| Italiano | stereotipo |
| Русский | стереотип stereotip |
verb make a stereotype, or characterize someone by a stereotype
| Español | estereotipar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 以刻板印象为特征 Yǐ kèbǎn yìnxiàng wèi tèzhēng |
| Português | estereotipar |
| Français | stéréotyper, clicher |
| Italiano | stereotipare |
Talk about this word "stereotype." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/stereotype. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. stereotype. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/stereotype "stereotype." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/stereotype.Cite this
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