stereotype
English edit
Etymology edit
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.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/, /ˈstɪə.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/
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Noun edit
stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)
- 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.
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- Synonym: cliché
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
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conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image
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printing plate
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extensibility mechanism of UML
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Verb edit
stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)
- (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.
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- to stereotype the Bible
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (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 edit
make a stereotype, or characterize someone by a stereotype
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print from a stereotype
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “stereotype”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 12 November 2020.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From French stéréotype.
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Noun edit
stereotype n (plural stereotypes or stereotypen, diminutive stereotypetje n)
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Adjective edit
stereotype