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Definition of Stereotype

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

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

Definition of Stereotype

1. n. 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.

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

Definition of Stereotype

1. Noun. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. ¹

2. Noun. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. ¹

3. Noun. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) : To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) : To print from a stereotype. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stereotype

1. [v -TYPED, -TYPING, -TYPES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stereotype

stereospecificities stereospecificity stereostatic stereostructural stereostructure stereotactic stereotactical stereotactically stereotaxic stereotaxically

stereotaxies stereotaxis stereotaxy stereotomy stereotropism stereotype (current term) stereotyped stereotyper stereotypers stereotypes

stereotypic stereotypical stereotypically stereotypies stereotyping stereotypist stereotypists stereotypographer stereotypographers stereotypography

Literary usage of Stereotype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1922)
"All the stereotype Plates are to be made according to the improved Process discovered by EARL STANHOPE. 6. ... Types used by the stereotype Office, London, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great by Eaton Sylvester Drone (1879)
"The verdict was in favor of the defendant, and the letter was accordingly held to amount to an assignment.1 Sale of stereotype Plates. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great by Eaton Sylvester Drone (1879)
"The verdict was in favor of the defendant, and the letter was accordingly held to amount to an assignment.1 Sale of stereotype Plates. ..."

4. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of by Wesley Washington Pasko (1894)
"An abbreviation much used in England for stereotype, although little employed in ... stereotype Blocks.—Blocks on which stereotype plates of books are ..."

5. The Law of Literature, Reviewing the Laws of Literary Property in by Appleton Morgan (1875)
"And Le Blanc, J., added: " The supplying the paper from time to time did not make it the less one entire work.1 It seems that a stereotype printer has not a ..."

6. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an by Isaiah Thomas (1874)
"stereotype, Printing. About the year 1775, an attempt at stereotype printing was made by Benjamin Mecom, printer, nephew of Dr. Franklin.1 He cast the ..."

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