stereotype
a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: Cowboys and Indians are American stereotypes.
a set form; convention: Most important for lexicographers are the idiomatic stereotypes whose meaning cannot be inferred from knowledge of the meanings of the individual items.
Printing.
a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
a plate made by this process.
to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain.
to give a fixed form to.
Printing. to make a stereotype of.
Origin of stereotype
1Other words for stereotype
Other words from stereotype
- ster·e·o·typ·er, ster·e·o·typ·ist, noun
- ster·e·o·typ·i·cal, ster·e·o·typ·ic [ster-ee-uh-tip-ik, steer-], /ˌstɛr i əˈtɪp ɪk, ˌstɪər-/, adjective
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How to use stereotype in a sentence
The irony is that communities are protesting stereotyping—as cops respond in stereotypical ways.
If Scotland does vote for independence it will be a sad victory for national self-stereotyping that is totally false.
A British Start to the Tour de France Forces the English to Wonder: What Does Being English Mean Anymore? | Clive Irving | July 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBoth 24 and Homeland caught significant flack from critics for stereotyping Muslims and Middle Easterners.
Generic and Superficial ‘Tyrant’ Amerisplains the Middle East | Andrew Romano | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd when you peacefully protest their stereotyping of you, they lash back at you and they call you horrendous, horrific names.
Amanda Blackhorse Is ‘Confident’ Snyder Will Lose His Redskins Appeal | Robert Silverman | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut can Hollywood confront its offensive stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims?
Hollywood’s Major Muslim Problem Doesn't End With 'Alice in Arabia' | Dean Obeidallah | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In 1861 Craske improved stereotyping by making it possible to reproduce curved printing plates from flat forms of type.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeIt is now called stereotyping, and it seems to have been successful from the first, from a technical point of view.
Invention | Bradley A. FiskeThe recent processes of stereotyping and electrotyping have added greatly to the cheapness, accuracy, and beauty of printing.
American Inventions and Inventors | William A. MowryIt is said that the process of stereotyping was first communicated to Didot by him.
Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) | Wiliam Cabell BruceThe amount is always small because the main costs of typesetting and stereotyping are eliminated from the price.
Government Documents in Small Libraries | Charles Wells Reeder
British Dictionary definitions for stereotype
/ (ˈstɛrɪəˌtaɪp, ˈstɪər-) /
a method of producing cast-metal printing plates from a mould made from a forme of type matter in papier-mâché or some other material
the plate so made
another word for stereotypy
an idea, trait, convention, etc, that has grown stale through fixed usage
sociol a set of inaccurate, simplistic generalizations about a group that allows others to categorize them and treat them accordingly
to make a stereotype of
to print from a stereotype
to impart a fixed usage or convention to
Derived forms of stereotype
- stereotyper or stereotypist, noun
- stereotypic (ˌstɛrɪə ˈtɪpɪk, ˌstɪər-) or stereotypical, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for stereotype (1 of 2)
A too-simple and therefore distorted image of a group, such as “Football players are stupid” or “The English are cold and unfriendly people.”
A generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish a group.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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