stereotype

noun

• 1a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing:the stereotype of the woman as the carer sexual and racial stereotypes
• a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong:don’t treat anyone as a stereotype

• 2a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

verb

• view or represent as a stereotype:the city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial wasteland