stereotypenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/us/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/disapprovingC1 a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
racial/sexual stereotypes
He doesn't conform to/fit/fill the national stereotype of a Frenchman.
The characters in the book are just stereotypes.
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- I think I fit the popular stereotype of a mad scientist.
- She was the very stereotype of the prim English woman.
- Adverts are full of stereotypes.
- The latest series contains a thoroughly offensive stereotype of a gay man.
- Her plots are predictable and her characters little more than stereotypes.
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Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- -ist
- article of faith
- attitude
- attitudinal
- baggage
- banner
- be a matter of opinion idiom
- eye
- judgment
- manifesto
- matter
- mindset
- mythology
- stand
- turn of mind
- voice
- what makes sb tick idiom
- your idea of sth idiom
- your two cents' worth idiom
- youth culture
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stereotypeverb [ T ]
uk/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/us/ˈster.i.ə.taɪp/disapprovingto have a set idea about what a particular type of person is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
The study claims that British advertising stereotypes women.
We tried not to give the children sexually stereotyped toys.
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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