stereotype

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.[1]

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).

   Synonyms: cliché, platitude

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
• stereotypic
• stereotypical

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) Faroese: javngjørd, stereotýpa Finnish: stereotyyppi (fi), kangistuma (fi), kaavoittuma (fi), stereotypia (fi) French: stéréotype (fr) m or f Galician: estereotipo m German: Stereotyp (de) m, Klischee (de) n, (psych.) Rollenklischee (de) n Greek: στερεότυπο (el) n (stereótypo) Hungarian: sztereotípia (hu) Icelandic: staðalímynd f Indonesian: stéréotipê Italian: stereotipo (it) m Japanese: ステレオタイプ (sutereotaipu) Malay: stereotaip Norwegian: Bokmål: stereotyp Nynorsk: stereotyp Persian: تفکر قالبی‎ (tafakkor-e ghâlebi) Portuguese: estereótipo (pt) m Russian: стереоти́п (ru) m (stereotíp), клише́ (ru) n (klišé) Serbo-Croatian: stereotip (sh) m Slovene: stereotip m Spanish: estereotipo (es) m, tópico (es) m Swedish: stereotyp (sv) c Turkish: basmakalıp söz, (sociology) kalıplaşmış yargı, (psychology) stereotip (tr)

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, nyomódúc, dúc (hu), nyomólemez, 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: please add this translation if you can 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

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “stereotype”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 12 November 2020.

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Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of stereotyp.