Usually means: Overgeneralized belief about a group.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stereotype: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stereotype: Merriam-Webster
  3. stereotype: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stereotype: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stereotype: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stereotype: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stereotype, stereotype: Wordnik
  8. stereotype: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stereotype: Wiktionary
  10. stereotype: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stereotype: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stereotype: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stereotype: Dictionary.com
  14. stereotype: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stereotype: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stereotype (UML), Stereotype (disambiguation), Stereotype (printing), Stereotype: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stereotype: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stereotype: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stereotype: Rhymezone
  20. stereotype, stereotype (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stereotype: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stereotype: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stereotype: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stereotype: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stereotype: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stereotype: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stereotype: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. stereotype: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stereotype: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See stereotyped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
noun:  (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
noun:  (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
noun:  (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
verb:  (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
verb:  (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
verb:  (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.

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