Stereotype

//ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an edition: printed in stereotype.

    "At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!"

  2. 2
    Synonym of stereotyped. figuratively, rare

    "It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, where the whole of the subject to be represented is made out, although parts of it from much use have been obliterated."

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

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

  2. 2
    a conventional or formulaic conception or image wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. transitive

    "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. 2
    treat or classify according to a mental stereotype wordnet
  3. 3
    To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of. transitive

    "to stereotype the Bible"

  4. 4
    To print from a stereotype. transitive
  5. 5
    To make firm or permanent; to fix. figuratively, transitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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.

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