# cliché
## English
### Alternative forms

* cliche

### Etymology

Borrowed from French cliché.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkliːʃeɪ/
* Rhymes: -iːʃeɪ
* (US) enPR: klē-shāʹ, IPA: /kliˈʃeɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ
* Hyphenation: cli‧ché

### Noun

cliché (plural clichés)
* Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]
    Synonyms: platitude, stereotype; see also Thesaurus:saying
    The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché.
    I know it's a bit of a cliché, but love really does conquer all.
** 2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle:Clever got me this far Then tricky got me in Eye on what I'm after I don't need another friend Smile and drop the cliche Till you think I'm listening Take just what I came for Then I'm out the door again
** 2023, “Remember All The Girls”, performed by The Sherlocks:Don’t believe what they’re saying everything’s is gonna change How could it be ever the same? It’s just a cliché fading Till we go our separate ways
* (printing) A stereotype (printing plate).

#### Usage notes

* The alternative spelling cliche may be used without confusion, as there is no other word in English with this spelling. (Contrast résumé, resumé.)

#### Derived terms

* clichéd
* clichély
* cliché-ridden
* cliché-verre
* line cliché
* thought-terminating cliché
* tired cliché

#### Related terms

* click

#### Translations
### Adjective

cliché (comparative more cliché, superlative most cliché)
* (proscribed) clichéd; having the characteristics of a cliché

### Verb

cliché (third-person singular simple present clichés, present participle clichéing, simple past and past participle clichéd or (rare) clichéed)
* (ambitransitive) To use a cliché; to make up a word or a name that sounds like a cliché.
** 2015, Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person‎:He clichéd at me. He clichéd at me in a perky, condescending tone.

### Anagrams

* chicle

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cliché.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kliˈʃeː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cli‧ché
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

cliché n (plural clichés, diminutive clicheetje n)
* a cliché
* an unoriginal work
* a printing plate, a stereotype

#### Derived terms

* clichématig

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: cliché
* → Indonesian: klise

## French
### Etymology

Past participle of clicher (“to stereotype, (originally) to copy”, literally “to click, clink”), from Middle French clicher, from Old French cliquer (“to click, clack, sound, resound”), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch klikken (“to click, rattle”), Low German klikken (“to click”), German klicken (“to click”), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”). Probably onomatopoeic, and probably influenced by Middle High German klitsch (“soft, pulpy mass”), from the old technique of creating a printing plate. More at click.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kli.ʃe/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cliché m (plural clichés)
* (printing) stereotype (printing plate)
    La reproduction dans la presse de dessins et de photographies se fait au moyen de clichés typographiques.The reproduction in the press of drawings and photographs is done by means of typographical clichés.
* (photography) negative
* (by extension) snapshot
    prendre un cliché ― take a snapshot
* (figurative) cliché; stereotype (overused phrase or expression)
    Synonyms: banalité, idée reçue, lieu commun, stéréotype

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: clixé
* → Czech: klišé
* → Danish: kliché, kliche
* → English: cliché
* → Estonian: klišee
* → Finnish: klisee
* → Galician: clixé
* → German: Klischee
* → Hungarian: klisé
* → Icelandic: klisja
* → Macedonian: клише́ (klišé)
* → Persian: کلیشه (keliše)
* → Portuguese: clichê, cliché (unadapted form)
* → Russian: клише́ (klišé)
* → Serbo-Croatian: klìšē/клѝше̄
* → Slovak: klišé
* → Slovene: kliše
* → Spanish: cliché
* → Turkish: klişe

### Further reading

* “cliché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* cliscè

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cliché.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kliʃˈʃɛ/$^{**}$, /kliʃˈʃe/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -ɛ, -e

### Noun

cliché m (invariable)
* plate (printing)
* cliché

### References

* ↑ cliché in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* lecchi

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cliché. Doublet of klisza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kliˈʂɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: cli‧ché

### Noun

cliché n (indeclinable)
* (literary, rhetoric) cliché (overused phrase or expression)
    Synonyms: klisza, szablon

### Further reading

* cliché in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* clisé

### Etymology

Borrowed from French cliché.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kliˈt͡ʃe/ [kliˈt͡ʃe]
* IPA: /kliˈʃe/ [kliˈʃe]
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: cli‧ché

### Noun

cliché m (plural clichés)
* (printing) cliché
* (talking) cliché
    Synonym: tópico

### Further reading

* “cliché”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* chicle