Dictionary Entry
stereotype
stereotype is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
- 2noun
The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.
- 3transitive verb
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
- 4transitive verb
Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- 5noun
a conventional or formulaic conception or image
"regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding"
- 6verb
treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
"I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
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