κλισέ — meaning in English

English meaning

• cliché noun A phrase or idea that has been used so often it no longer has any force or freshness.
• plate noun A flat, shallow dish used for serving or eating food.

Senses

κλισέ is used for these senses in English:

• cliché (rhetoric) 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.]
• plate (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

cliché — full definition

1. noun A phrase or idea that has been used so often it no longer has any force or freshness.
2. noun A situation, character or feature so predictable that it feels stale.
3. adjective So overused as to have lost its impact. Often written clichéd.

plate — full definition

1. noun A flat, shallow dish used for serving or eating food.
2. noun A rigid piece of metal, glass, or other material with a flat, uniform shape.
3. noun A vehicle's license plate.
4. noun One of the large rigid sections of the Earth's crust that move over time; a tectonic plate.
5. verb To coat the surface of an object with a thin layer of another metal.

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