🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ステレオタイプ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sutereotaipu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stereotype/ˈstɛriəˌtaɪp/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4120 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その古いステレオタイプを払拭する必要がある。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

    "We must strive to break down gender stereotypes in the workplace."
As verb
  1. 1

    To view or represent as a stereotype.

    "It is unfair to stereotype all teenagers as being lazy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the late 18th century from French 'stéréotype', derived from Greek 'stereos' (solid) + 'typos' (imprint/mark), originally referring to a printing plate that cast a facsimile of a page of type. The metaphorical psychological sense of a fixed, unvarying image or idea developed around 1922 by Walter Lippmann.

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