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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

고정관념

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gojeonggwan-nyeom

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stereotype/ˈstɛriəˌtaɪp/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4120 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그것은 위험한 고정관념에 불과하다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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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