Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Stereotyp, Klischee, (psych.) Rollenklischee

    стереоти́пstereotíp, клише́klišé

    стереоти́пstereotýp

    a conventional or formulaic conception or image

  2. (countable, uncountable)A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

    Stereotypie

  4. (countable, uncountable)An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

    Stereotyp

    стереотипstereotip

Examples

80 sentences
  1. It's an old stereotype.

    Це старий стереотип. — deniko

    ruЭто старый стереотип. — marafon

    deDas ist ein altes Klischee. — Jan_Schreiber

  2. Tom doesn't believe in stereotypes.

    Том не вірить у стереотипи. — deniko

    ruТом не верит в стереотипы. — Wezel

  3. I hate stereotypes.

    Я ненавиджу стереотипи. — Ahha

    ruНенавижу стереотипы. — ZegPhig

  4. Stereotypes exist for a reason.

    Стереотипи існують не без причини. — deniko

  5. There is some truth behind stereotypes.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image:
Русский
By meaning 2
conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image:
extensibility mechanism of UML:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image:
printing plate:

Origin

Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense

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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