different between stereotype vs paragon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.?i.??ta?p/, /?st??.?i.??ta?p/

Noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

   Synonyms: cliché, platitude

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.

   Synonym: cliché

4. (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Derived terms

• stereotypic
• stereotypical

Translations

Verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
2. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

3. (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
   • 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is

     Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

Translations

References

Swedish

Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman paragone, peragone, Middle French paragon, from Italian paragone (“comparison”) or Spanish parangón, from paragonare, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parakoná?, “I sharpen, whet”), from ???? (pará) +? ????? (akón?, “whetstone”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ????n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæ?????n/, /?pæ?????n/, /?pæ????n/
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction)

Noun

paragon (plural paragons)

1. A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody
2. (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal. [16th–19th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Comparison; competition. [16th–17th c.]
4. (typography, printing, dated) The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point. [from 18th c.]
5. A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.

Translations

Verb

paragon (third-person singular simple present paragons, present participle paragoning, simple past and past participle paragoned)

1. To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
2. To compare with; to equal; to rival.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid

3. To serve as a model for; to surpass.
4. To be equal; to hold comparison.

Translations

Further reading

• paragon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paragon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paragon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?para?on]

Noun

paragon m

1. A receipt, sales slip.

Synonyms

• stvrzenka
• ú?tenka

Further reading

• paragon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• paragon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Polish

Etymology

Mid 16th century: from obsolete French paragon, from Italian paragone (“touchstone to try good (gold) from bad”), from Byzantine Greek ???????? (parakón?, “whetstone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra.??n/

Noun

paragon m inan

1. receipt (written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received)

Declension

Further reading

• paragon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• paragon in Polish dictionaries at PWN