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”). Displaced native Old English hlīsa, which was also the word for "fame."
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
- 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.
- 1928, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, page 12:
- Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
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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.
Synonyms
- name
Derived terms
- reputational
Related terms
- repute
Translations
what somebody is known for
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Further reading
- reputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- reputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- putoranite, tau protein
Middle French
Noun
reputation f (plural reputations)
- reputation