stereotype meaning
ENWStereotype
- In social psychology, a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.
FR stéréotype 
- NounPLstereotypesPREstéréo-SUF-type
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- (computing, UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language.
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).
- VerbSGstereotypesPRstereotypingPT, PPstereotyped
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- to stereotype the Bible
- (transitive) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- LDS filmmakers had reacted against Hollywood's stereotypes but only succeeded in creating their own, and some detractors pejoratively dismissed the entire Mormon film movement as "Mollywood".
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stereotype in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "stereotype" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.