Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

  2. (transitive)To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

    to stereotype the Bible

  3. (transitive)To print from a stereotype.

    treat or classify according to a mental stereotype

  4. (figuratively, transitive)To make firm or permanent; to fix.

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

4 languages

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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Forms

stereotypes, stereotyping, stereotyped, stereotyped
Base formstereotype · to stereotype
3rd person singularstereotypes
Present participlestereotyping
Past simplestereotyped
Past participlestereotyped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystereotype
he, she, itstereotypes

Past simpleLesson

all personsstereotyped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stereotyped
he, she, ithas stereotyped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stereotype

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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