Definition of Stereotype

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Stereotype

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

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Stereotype Quotations

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
Bjork

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.
Portia de Rossi

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
Joan Chen

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
Genevieve Gorder

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
Gary Cherone

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
Parminder Nagra

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
Parminder Nagra

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
Edward Grey

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
Caprice Bourret

Stereotype Translations

stereotype in German is stereotyp
stereotype in Spanish is estereotipo

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