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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A trite or overused expression or idea: "Even while the phrase was degenerating to cliché in ordinary public use . . . scholars were giving it increasing attention” ( Anthony Brandt).
  2. n. A person or character whose behavior is predictable or superficial: "There is a young explorer . . . who turns out not to be quite the cliche expected” ( John Crowley).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An electrotype or stereotype plate.
  2. n. A stereotyped formula; a lifeless copy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. printing A stereotype (printing plate).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
  2. n. a trite or obvious remark.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a trite or obvious remark

Etymologies

  1. From French cliché (Wiktionary)
  2. French, past participle of clicher, to stereotype (imitative of the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a stereotype plate). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. platitude
  1. banality
  1. commonplace
  1. bromide
  1. saying

hypernyms (4)

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  1. input
  1. truism
  1. remark
  1. comment

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  1. andnew
  2. knockin'
  1. lovin'
  2. guesser
  1. zine
  2. introducer
  1. sourcebook
  2. nerds
  1. trope
  2. truism
  1. platitude
  2. adage
  1. one-liner
  2. libretti

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. platitude
  1. truism
  1. bromide
  1. commonplace
  1. clone
  1. cliché
  1. tag
  1. stamp

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  • reesetee In stamp collecting, the individual unit that consists of a design of a single stamp, combined with others to make up the complete printing plate. Individual designs on modern one-piece printing plates are referred to as subjects. Aug 24, 2008

  • uselessness Avoid clichés like the plague. Jan 25, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang An overused word. Suggest the pleonastic tired old chesnut Jan 19, 2007

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