Stereotype

Definition: Stereotype

Stereotype

Noun

1. A conventional or formulaic conception or image: "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding".

Verb

1. Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European".

Date "stereotype" was first used: 1798. (references)

Domain	Definition
Publishing & Graphic Arts	Lead casting in one block, often electroplated with copper, nickel or chromium. Source: European Union. (references)
Diversity	To categorize people based on an artificial construction of a certain group designed to impart the "essence" of that group, which homogenizes the group, effacing individuality and difference. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Originally a stereotype was an impression taken from a form of movable lead type and used for printing instead of the original type. This was generalized into a metaphor for repeating a set of ideas identically with no changes (as would have been possible in a form of movable type).

In modern usage, the metaphorical meaning predominates. The term is generally used to describe an oversimplified mental picture of some group of people who are sharing a certain characteristic (or stereotypical) qualities. The term is thus often used in a negative sense, with stereotypes being seen by many as illogical yet deeply held-beliefs that can only be changed through education.

In computing, the negative connotation does not apply; stereotype is also a concept in the Unified Modeling Language, where it is used to encapsulate behaviors. Thus, a stereotype is used as a vehicle for communicating software requirements and designs.

Common stereotypes of the past included a variety of allegations about various racial groups (see: racial stereotype and racial profiling) and predictions of behavior based on social status and wealth (See social stereotype).

In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. For example, the stereotypical devil is a red, impish character with horns and a pitchfork.

Common stereotypical characters

The "hard-boiled" private eye
The aging absent-minded professor (sometimes speaking incoherently)
The ditzy busty blonde woman ("dumb blonde")
The dowdy librarian (who becomes instantly attractive when she takes her glasses off)
The degenerate aristocrat with top hat, tuxedo, and monocle
The snobbish butler (speaking with a non-American English accent)
The nerdy scientist (with black wiry-framed eyeglasses, black bowtie, white coat, speaking in technobabble)
- Similar: The short genius schoolkid, who wears glasses and uniform ("geek" or "dork")
The primly dressed schoolmarm with her pointer and "Now, class" address
The peg-legged pirate with an eye patch and parrot
The overweight, doughnut-eating cop who believes skateboarding is a crime
The prostitute with a heart of gold
The brightly colored court jester
The villain with black clothes, moustache like two needles and generalized Central or Eastern European accent
The jolly Middle Eastern or South Asian cornershop owner with his collection of trinkets
The picky chef with his toque and piquant French accent
The overdelivering game show host with his giant smile
The confrontational gangster in his pinstripe suit from Armani or Versace, who hides his gun in a violin case
The tobacco-spitting baseball player
The effeminate homosexual male
The tomboyish lesbian
The old lady who sits on the porch, reminiscing and knitting

Synonyms: Stereotype

Synonyms: pigeonhole (v), stamp (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Engraving	Impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype.
Indication	Put an indication, put a mark; Noun: note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.
Printing	Typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals; (letters); brevier, bourgeois, pica;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Stereotype

English words defined with "stereotype": Acierage ♦ Calculating machine, Cerography ♦ Gelatin process ♦ Lithotype ♦ pigeonhole ♦ stamp, Stereotype block, Stereotyper, Stereotypery, Stereotyping, Stereotypographer, Stereotypography, Stereotypy ♦ -type ♦ type metal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "stereotype": BLOCKER I, BLOCKER, METAL BASE ♦ LINE-UP EXAMINER ♦ MAKE-UP ARRANGER ♦ PLATE FINISHER, printing-plate router ♦ stone hand, SUPERVISOR, ELECTROTYPING AND STEREOTYPING. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Stereotype" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (stereotype).

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

May I suggest the Olive Garden? It's like eating in the private kitchen of a delightful Italian stereotype! (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype (reference) Mind Your Colour: The 'Coloured' Stereotype in South African Literature (Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden) (reference) Sociology and the stereotype of the criminal (reference) Stereotype Activation and Inhibition: Advances in Social Cognition (Advances in Social Cognition Series , Vol 11) (reference) Stereotype and Status: Librarians in the United States (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Beyond Stereotype (reference) Stereotype A [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference) Stereotype Be (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The stereotype of the GOP, the Party of Lincoln, as the segregationist, racist party may be one of the biggest political sleights of hand in history.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Stereotype" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.01% of the time. "Stereotype" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.01%	253	18,652
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	6.62%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.37%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	272	N/A

Expressions using "stereotype": stereotype block ♦ stereotype dry mat. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "stereotype": Electro-stereotype.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "stereotype"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stereotipik (stereotypical), stereotipi, klishe (block, cliché, cut, halftone, phototype, print, stencil). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقولب شىء مكرر, ‏قولب (pattern, press), ‏سلوك مكرر, ‏طبع بالصفحات, ‏صفيحة طباعة, ‏التصفيحية. (various references)

Bulgarian		стереотипен (stereotyped), стереотипирам (plate), стереотип, зафиксирвам, печатам със стереотип. (various references)

Chinese		陈�"滥调. (various references)

Czech		stereotyp, šablona (pattern, stencil, template). (various references)

Danish		sterotypi (stereotyping), sterotyp (stereotyping). (various references)

Dutch		gemeenplaats (banality, cliché, platitude), cliché (cliché, cut, half-tone, negative). (various references)

Esperanto		stereotipo, kliŝo (clich@, cut, half-tone, negative), kliŝaĵo (clich@). (various references)

Faeroese		rangmynd (cliché, cut, half-tone, negative), prentmynd (cliché, cut, half-tone, negative), prentmót (cliché, cut, half-tone, negative). (various references)

Farsi		یک نواخت کردن , کلیشه کردن , کلیشه (Type), رفتارقالبی داشتن , باکلیشه چاپ کردن . (various references)

Finnish		stereotyyppilaatta, stereotyyppi, stereotypoida, stereofoninen, stereo. (various references)

French		stéréotyper, stéréotype (stereo, stereotyped), stéréotypage (stereotyping), clicher. (various references)

German		Stereotyp (impersonal, stereotyped, stiff, stock). (various references)

Greek		στερεοτυπία (iteration, stereotyping, stereotypy), στερεοτυπώ. (various references)

Hebrew		שבלו� �" (die, fixed form, mould, routine, stencil), �"בר טיפוסי. (various references)

Hungarian		sztereotípia (stereo, stereotypy). (various references)

Indonesian		klise (cliche). (various references)

Italian		stereotipo (cliche). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鉛版 , 紙型 (papier-mache mold, stencil), 既成概念 (preconceived idea), 固定観念 (prejudice), ステップ関数 (steady, stealth, stenographer, step function, stereo, stereo camera, stereo record, stereophonic, stereoscope, stereotape, stereovision), ステレオ�"�送 (stained glass, stainless, stainless steel, stereo broadcasting, steroid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きせいがいね�" (preconceived idea), しけい (capital punishment, death penalty, lynching, papier-mache mold, stencil, verse forms, versification), かみがた (coiffure, hair style, hairdo, Kyoto and vicinity, papier-mache mold, stencil, upper region or part), �"ていか�"ね�" (prejudice), ステロタイプ , ステレオタイプ , え�"ば�" (discus, disk, lead plate). (various references)

Korean		� � �관념. (various references)

Manx		stereoplait, plaital, cur beaynchroo er, beaynaghey (continuation, continue, fix, immortalize, lengthen, stabilization, stabilize). (various references)

Pig Latin		ereotypestay

Portuguese		estereotipar, estereotipagem (stereotyping), estereótipo (stereotyped, stereotyper, stereo-typer). (various references)

Romanian		stereotipa, stereotip (trite), clişeu (cliché, cut). (various references)

Russian		стереотип. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sterotipni, stereotipisati, stereotipija, stereotip, ukalupiti (form, mold, mould), štampati pločnim slogom, šablonski, šablon (cliché, pattern, template, templet). (various references)

Spanish		estereotipo (plate). (various references)

Swedish		stereotypera, stereotyp (stereotyped), klichera. (various references)

Turkish		stereotipi basmak, stereotip (stereoplate, stereotyped), tutturmak (attach, be hung up on, bind, bond, braid, clasp, clip, fasten, hasp, infix, insist, latch, pin, rub in, seam together, stick, stick together, tack, tack together), klişeleşmiş lâflar etmek, klişe (cardboard box, cliché, commonplace, cut, printing block, stereo, stereoplate), kalıpla basılmış eser, basmakalıp söz (cliché, conventionality, platitude, rubber stamp, stock phrase). (various references)

Ukrainian		стереотипія, стереотипувати, стереотипність, стереотип (stereo), перетворювати на стандарт, друкувати із стереотипу. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự in bằng bản in đúc mẫu sẵn, mẫu rập khuôn ấn tượng sâu sắc, bản in đúc sự chế tạo bản in đúc, ấn tượng bất di bất dịch. (various references)

Welsh		ystrydebu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	stereos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stereotype": stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypers, stereotypes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stereotype" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: serotype, stereotypi, stererotype, steriotype, steroetype, sterotype, streiotype, streotype. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stereotype" (pronounced ste"rēutī'p or ste"rēōtī'p)
4	-u t ī' p	archetype, ferrotype, genotype, Monotype, phenotype, prototype.
3	-t ī' p	subtype, tintype.
3	-t ī' p	archetype, ferrotype, genotype, Monotype, phenotype, prototype, subtype, tintype.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: proettes, serotype, treetops.
	-3 letters: eyesore, eyespot, pertest, petters, peyotes, potters, pottery, pretest, proette, protest, retypes, rosette, spotter, steeper, teeters, treetop, typeset.
	-4 letters: osprey, otters, oyster, pester, peters, petter, peyote, poetry, poster, potter, preset, presto, pretty, repose, repots, respot, retest, retype, rottes, septet, settee, setter, sporty, spotty, stereo, stoper, storey, street, teeter, tepees, tepoys.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes.
	+2 letters: electrotypes, stereotypers, stereotypies.
	+3 letters: electrotypers, streptomycete.
	+4 letters: streptomycetes.
	+5 letters: phototypesetter, retrospectively.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
stereotype	312	high school stereotype	9
gender stereotype	58	quiz stereotype	9
asian stereotype	26	common stereotype	8
black stereotype	21	example stereotype	8
african american stereotype	20	stereotype and prejudice	7
racial stereotype	20	male stereotype	7
hispanic stereotype	14	canadian stereotype	7
american native stereotype	13	lesbian stereotype	7
in media stereotype	13	ethnic stereotype	7
irish stereotype	13	american stereotype	7
definition stereotype	12	media stereotype	7
gay stereotype	12	article stereotype	7
jewish stereotype	12	french stereotype	7
american asian stereotype	11	japanese stereotype	7
italian stereotype	11	male stereotype white	7
blonde stereotype	11	stereotype teenage	6
mexican stereotype	11	chinese stereotype	6
stereotype woman	10	social stereotype	6
cultural stereotype	9	female stereotype	6
stereotype threat	9	german stereotype	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Stereotype

Definition: Stereotype

Stereotype

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Stereotype

Specialty Definition: Stereotype

Synonyms: Stereotype

Synonyms within Context: Stereotype

Engraving

Indication

Printing

Crosswords: Stereotype

Modern Usage: Stereotype

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Stereotype

Books

Music

Image Slideshow: Stereotype

Computer Images:Stereotype

Spoken Usage: Stereotype

Rush Limbaugh

Usage Frequency: Stereotype

Expression: Stereotype

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stereotype

Modern Translation: Stereotype

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Faeroese

Farsi

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Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

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Romanian

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Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Stereotype

Derivations & Misspellings: Stereotype

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Stereotype"

Anagrams: Stereotype

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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Computer Images:
Stereotype