stereotype

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Etymology

Derived from French stéréotype.

Noun

stereotype (plural stereotypes)

1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
3. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

Translations

a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image

• Arabic: اَلصُّورَةُ النَّمَطِيَّةْ (ar) (al-Suura al-namaTíyya) f
• Armenian: կարծրատիպ (hy) (karcratip) 
• Catalan: estereotip (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刻板印象 (cmn) (kèbǎn-yìnxiàng)

• Czech: stereotyp (cs) m
• Finnish: stereotypia (fi)
• French: stéréotype (fr) m and f
• German: Stereotyp (de) m, Klischee (de) n, (psych.) Rollenklischee (de) n

• Japanese: ステレオタイプ (ja) (sutereotaipu)
• Malay: stereotaip (ms)
• Portuguese: estereótipo (pt) m
• Russian: стереотип (ru) (stereotíp) m , клише (ru) (klišé) n 
• Slovene: stereotip (sl) m
• Spanish: estereotipo (es) m
• Turkish: basmakalıp söz (tr), (sociology) kalıplaşmış yargı (tr), (psychology) stereotip (tr)

a printing plate

• Catalan: estereotip (ca) m
• French: cliché (fr) m
• German: Stereotypie (de) f

• Spanish: estereotipo (es) m
• Turkish: baskı klişesi (tr)

Verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

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.

   to stereotype the Bible

3. (transitive) To print from a stereotype.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
   • Duke of Argyll (1887)

     Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

Translations

To make a stereotype, or characterize someone by a stereotype

• French: stéréotyper (fr), clicher (fr)

To print from a stereotype

• Irish: plátáil (ga)

See also

• stereotypic
• stereotypical

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Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.