Reputation
Pronunciation
- IPA: en, /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -en, -eɪʃən
Origin
14c. "credit, good reputation", , noun of action from past participle stem of reputo ("reflect upon, reckon, count over"), from the prefix re- ("again") + puto ("reckon, consider"). Displaced native , which was also the word for "fame."
Full definition of reputation
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, ... Chapter , 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, w:Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith
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Collocations
- good reputation
- great reputation
- excellent reputation
- bad reputation
- stellar reputation
- tarnished reputation
- evil reputation
- damaged reputation
- dubious reputation
- spotless reputation
- terrible reputation
- ruined reputation
- horrible reputation
- lost reputation
- literary reputation
- corporate reputation
- global reputation
- personal reputation
- academic reputation
- scientific reputation
- posthumous reputation
- moral reputation
- artistic reputation
Further reading
- Webster 1913
- Century 1911
- Roget 1911|repute