1. A specific (often simplistic) category
   "Critics tried to pigeonhole her music into a single genre"
    
2. A small compartment
   "He stored his important documents in a pigeonhole in his desk";
   - cubbyhole

1. Place into a small compartment
   "The secretary pigeonholed the incoming mail for each department"
    
2. Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
   "I was pigeonholed as a lazy Southern European";
   - stereotype, stamp

Derived forms: pigeonholing, pigeonholed, pigeonholes

Type of: assort, category, class, classify, compartment, lay, place, pose, position, put, separate, set, sort, sort out

Encyclopedia: Pigeonhole