stereotype

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
2. (countable, uncountable) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
3. (countable, uncountable) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
4. (countable, uncountable) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
2. (transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
3. (transitive) To print from a stereotype.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Adj

1. Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
2. (figuratively, rare) Synonym of stereotyped.

Synonyms

stamp

cliché

pigeonhole

cliche

commonplace

stereotypical

grade

group

hackneyed

ordinate

place

platitude

preconceived idea

preconception

prejudice

regiment

relegate

rigid

routine

static

stencil

stereotyped

stratify

trite

idee fixe

papier-mache mold

papier-mache mould

bracket

squeeze into a pattern

catalog

categorize

classify

fixed idea

formula

Translations

stéréotype

estereotipo

stereotipo

Stereotyp

estereotip

Klischee

cliché

estereótipo

stéréotyper

stereotype

cliché

cliché

gemeenplaats

στερεότυπο

Stereotypie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/

Etymology

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.