cliché

Meaning

1. stereotype (printing plate)
2. negative
3. snapshot
4. cliché; stereotype (overused phrase or expression)

Concepts

cliché

stereotype

cliche

commonplace

printing plate

block

platitude

banality

bromide

negative

catch-phrase

hackneyed expression

expression

phraseology

shot

stencil

cut

plate

impression

wayside shrine

pigeonhole

stamp

still

triteness

unoriginality

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kli.ʃe/

Etymology

Past participle of clicher (“to stereotype, (originally) to copy”, literally “to click, clink”), from Middle French clicher, from Old French cliquer (“to click, clack, sound, resound”), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch klikken (“to click, rattle”), Low German klikken (“to click”), German klicken (“to click”), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”). Probably onomatopoeic, and probably influenced by Middle High German klitsch (“soft, pulpy mass”), from the old technique of creating a printing plate. More at click.