stereotype
B2Meanings
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noun
a conventional or formulaic conception or image
regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding
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verb
treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European
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noun
A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.
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verb
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
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.
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verb
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
to stereotype the Bible
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verb
To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
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adj
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!
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adj
Synonym of stereotyped.
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.
Etymology
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.