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What does stereotype mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stereotype? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).
  2. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
  3. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
  4. (computing) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
  2. (transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
  3. (transitive) To print from a stereotype.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
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