reputation

See also: Reputation and réputation

English

Etymology

14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

  1. What somebody is known for.
    • 1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] ‎, Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117:
      And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "reputation": good, great, excellent, bad, stellar, tarnished, evil, damaged, dubious, spotless, terrible, ruined, horrible, lost, literary, corporate, global, personal, academic, scientific, posthumous, moral, artistic.

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Further reading

  • reputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • reputation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

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Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

  1. reputation
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