stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/noun 4verb 4adjective 2forms 3 noun4 •A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype. •A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. •A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface. •An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations. verb4 •To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. •(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. — 1887 •To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of. •To print from a stereotype. adjective2 •Of an edition: printed in stereotype.Yet the whole of this mighty preparation ended in the production of a small stereotype edition of the New Testament, without the usual distinction of verses, and nearly without notes. — 1820 •(figurative, rare) Synonym of stereotyped. formsstereotyped · stereotyping · stereotypes