Stereotype

Quick meaning: Stereotype is a noun meaning A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

Meaning

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

More Meanings

1. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
2. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
3. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
4. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
5. (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
6. (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
7. (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Example Sentences

Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.

Heartwarming: Trans girl breaks stereotypes by being the worst on the girls swim team

So, here are my top 10 tips on how you can avoid the “stupid American” stereotype and become a “Smart American” abroad.

Instead we notice a trait which marks a well known type, and fill in the rest of the picture by means of the stereotypes we carry about in our heads.

Word Forms

• stereotypes
• stereotyping
• stereotyped

Synonyms for stereotype

Depending on context, synonyms include stereotyped, pigeonhole, stamp.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stamp, pigeonhole, imaginable, conceivable, bias, cliche.

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