stereotype

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype. 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, /ˈstɪə.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/

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Noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

   Coordinate terms: cliché, platitude, single story

   Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.

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.

   Synonym: cliché

4. (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Derived terms

• metastereotype
• stereotype tax
• stereotype threat
• stereotypic
• stereotypical

Related terms

• stereotypy

Translations

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

• Arabic: صُورَة نَمَطِيَّة f (ṣūra namaṭiyya)
• Armenian: կարծրատիպ (hy) (karcratip)
• Bulgarian: навик (bg) m (navik), стереотип (bg) m (stereotip)
• Catalan: estereotip (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刻板印象 (zh) (kèbǎn yìnxiàng)

• Czech: stereotyp (cs) m
• Danish: stereotyp c
• Dutch: stereotype (nl) n
• Esperanto: stereotipo, kliŝo (eo)
• Estonian: stereotüüp
• Faroese: javngjørd, stereotýpa
• Finnish: stereotyyppi (fi), kangistuma (fi), kaavoittuma (fi), stereotypia (fi)
• French: stéréotype (fr) m or f
• Galician: estereotipo m
• Georgian: სტერეოტიპი (sṭereoṭiṗi)
• German: Stereotyp (de) n, Klischee (de) n, (psych.) Rollenklischee (de) n
• Greek: στερεότυπο (el) n (stereótypo)
• Hungarian: sztereotípia (hu)
• Icelandic: staðalímynd f
• Indonesian: stéréotipê
• Irish: steiréitiopa f
• Italian: stereotipo (it) m
• Japanese: ステレオタイプ (sutereotaipu)
• Korean: 고정관념 (ko) (gojeonggwannyeom)
• Latvian: stereotips m
• Lithuanian: stereotipas m
• Macedonian: стереотип m (stereotip)
• Malay: stereotaip
• Maori: arotoka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stereotyp

  Nynorsk: stereotyp

• Persian: تفکر قالبی (tafakkor-e qâlebi)
• Polish: stereotyp (pl) m
• Portuguese: estereótipo (pt) m
• Romanian: stereotip (ro) n
• Russian: стереоти́п (ru) m (stereotíp), клише́ (ru) n (klišé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стереотип m

  Roman: stereotip (sh) m

• Slovak: stereotyp m
• Slovene: stereotip m
• Spanish: estereotipo (es) m, tópico (es) m
• Swedish: stereotyp (sv) c
• Turkish: basmakalıp söz, (sociology) kalıplaşmış yargı, (psychology) stereotip (tr)
• Ukrainian: стереоти́п m (stereotýp)

printing plate

• Armenian: կարծրատիպ (hy) (karcratip)
• Bulgarian: клише (bg) n (kliše)
• Catalan: estereotip (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: kliché c, kliche c
• Finnish: stereotyyppi (fi)
• French: cliché (fr) m
• Galician: estereotipo m
• German: Stereotypie f
• Greek: στερεοτυπία (el) f (stereotypía)
• Hungarian: tömöntvény, klisé (hu), sztereotípia (hu), nyomóforma (hu), nyomódúc (hu), dúc (hu), nyomólemez (hu), sablon (hu)
• Spanish: estereotipo (es) m
• Turkish: baskı klişesi

extensibility mechanism of UML

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: stereotyyppi (fi)
• French: stéréotype (fr) m
• German: Stereotyp (de) n
• Italian: stereotipo (it) m
• Polish: stereotyp (pl) m
• Portuguese: estereótipo (pt) m
• Russian: стереотип (ru) m (stereotip)
• Spanish: estereotipo (es) m

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.
   • 1957, Karl Popper, chapter 24, in The Poverty of Historicism, FIRST HARPER TORCH BOOK edition, page 90:

     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.

2. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

   to stereotype the Bible

3. (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
4. (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
   • 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is:

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

Translations

make a stereotype, or characterize someone by a stereotype

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 以刻板印象为特征 (Yǐ kèbǎn yìnxiàng wèi tèzhēng)

• Finnish: stereotyypitellä, stereotypioida
• French: stéréotyper (fr), clicher (fr)
• Italian: stereotipare
• Portuguese: estereotipar (pt)

print from a stereotype

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: stereotypioida
• Irish: plátáil

Dutch

Etymology

From French stéréotype.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stereotype n (plural stereotypes or stereotypen, diminutive stereotypetje n)

1. stereotype

Derived terms

• stereotiep
• stereotyperen

 

Related terms

• type

 

Swedish

Adjective

stereotype

1. definite natural masculine singular of stereotyp