stereotype.
A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
Meaning & usage
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.
A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
to stereotype the Bible
To print from a stereotype.
To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Where this word comes from
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.
Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
Synonym of stereotyped.
Where this word comes from
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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