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

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

  1. What somebody or something 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, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
      Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

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with adjective in a positive sense
  • good reputation
  • great reputation
  • excellent reputation
with adjective in a negative sense
  • bad reputation
  • stellar reputation
  • tarnished reputation
  • evil reputation
  • damaged reputation
  • dubious reputation
  • spotless reputation
  • terrible reputation
  • ruined reputation
  • horrible reputation
  • lost reputation
with adjective in other senses
  • literary reputation
  • corporate reputation
  • global reputation
  • personal reputation
  • academic reputation
  • scientific reputation
  • posthumous reputation
  • moral reputation
  • artistic reputation

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Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

  1. reputation
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