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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a conventional or formulaic conception or image;
- Example: "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding"


VERB (1)

1. treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;
- Example: "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
[syn: pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stereotype \Ste"re*o*type\, n. [Stereo- + -type: cf. F. st['e]r['e]otype.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Note: A stereotype, or stereotypr plate, is made by setting movable type as for ordinary printing; from these a cast is taken in plaster of Paris, paper pulp, or the like, and upon this cast melted type metal is poured, which, when hardened, makes a solid page or column, from which the impression is taken as from type. [1913 Webster] 2. The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them. [1913 Webster] Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stereotype \Ste"re*o*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stereotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping.] [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]otyper.] 1. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. [1913 Webster] Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. --Duke of Argyll (1887). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stereotype n 1: a conventional or formulaic conception or image; "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding" v 1: treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "stereotype": assimilate to, automatism, autotype, bad habit, balance, bed, characteristic, confirm, creature of habit, custom, damp, deep-dye, define, duplicate plate, electrotype, embed, engraft, engrave, entrench, equalize, equilibrize, establish, etch, even, fix, flatten, force of habit, found, ground, habit, habit pattern, habitude, harmonize, homogenize, impact, implant, impress, imprint, infix, ingrain, inscribe, jam, keyboard, level, linotype, locked-up page, lodge, make uniform, monotype, normalize, pack, palaeotype, pattern, peculiarity, plant, plastic plate, plate, practice, praxis, print, printing plate, printing surface, regularize, regulate, root, rubber plate, seat, second nature, set, set in, settle, smooth, stabilize, stamp, standardize, stereotyped behavior, stone, symmetrize, trick, typeform, uniformize, usage, use, way, wedge, wont, zincograph, zincotype