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/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

1. What somebody or something is known for.

   Synonyms: name, (archaic) savour

   • 1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] ‎^[1], 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^[2], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12:

     Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

Derived terms

• reputational
• reputation economy
• reputation management
• your reputation precedes you

Related terms

• repute

Collocations

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

Translations

what somebody is known for

• Albanian: reputacion m
• Arabic: سُمْعَة f (sumʕa), شُهْرَة f (šuhra), صِيت m (ṣīt), اِشْتِهَار m (ištihār)

  Egyptian Arabic: صيت m (ṣīt)

• Armenian: համբավ (hy) (hambav)
• Azerbaijani: ad (az), şöhrət (az)
• Bashkir: абруй (abruy)
• Belarusian: рэпута́цыя f (reputácyja), рэнамэ́ n (renamé)
• Bengali: শোহরৎ (bn) (śōhorot), আব্রু (bn) (abru)
• Bulgarian: репута́ция (bg) f (reputácija), реноме́ (bg) n (renomé)
• Burmese: အသရေ (my) (a.sa.re), သိန် (my) (sin), ဂုဏ်သရေ (my) (gunsa.re), ဂုဏ် (my) (gun)
• Carpathian Rusyn: репутація f (reputacija), повість f (povistʹ)
• Catalan: reputació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名譽／名誉 (zh) (míngyù), 聲譽／声誉 (zh) (shēngyù), 名聲／名声 (zh) (míngshēng), 聲望／声望 (zh) (shēngwàng)

• Czech: pověst (cs) f, reputace f, renomé (cs) n (literary)
• Danish: anseelse (da) c, omdømme n
• Dutch: faam (nl) m, naam (nl) m, reputatie (nl) f, aanzien (nl) n
• Estonian: maine (et), reputatsioon
• Finnish: maine (fi)
• French: réputation (fr) f, renommée (fr) f (more slang)
• Galician: reputación (gl) m, creto (gl) m
• Georgian: რეპუტაცია (reṗuṭacia)
• German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Klang (de) f, Bekanntheit (de) f, Reputation (de) f
• Gothic: (good) 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (wailamērei)
• Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími)

  Ancient: φήμη f (phḗmē)

• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין (he) m pl (monitín)
• Hindi: प्रतिष्ठा (hi) f (pratiṣṭhā), प्रसिद्धि (hi) f (prasiddhi), नाम (hi) m (nām), शोहरत (hi) f (śohrat), आबरू (hi) f (ābrū)
• Hungarian: hírnév (hu), (jó) hír, (only if positive) elismertség (hu), megbecsültség (hu)
• Indonesian: reputasi (id)
• Italian: reputazione (it) f, rumore (it), caratura f
• Japanese: 評判 (ja) (ひょうばん, hyōban), 名声 (ja) (めいせい, meisei)
• Kazakh: абырой (abyroi), атақ (ataq), бедел (bedel), бетбедел (betbedel)
• Khmer: កិត្តិ (km) (kətteʼ), កិរ្តិ៍ (km) (kee)
• Korean: 평판(評判) (ko) (pyeongpan), 명성(名聲) (ko) (myeongseong)
• Kyrgyz: репутация (ky) (reputatsiya), абруй (ky) (abruy), бедел (ky) (bedel), абийир (ky) (abiyir)
• Lao: ຊື່ສຽງ (sư̄ sīang)
• Latin: fāma f
• Latvian: reputācija f
• Lithuanian: reputacija f, įvaizdis (lt) m, įvaizdis (lt) m
• Macedonian: репутација f (reputacija), реноме́ n (renomé)
• Malay: reputasi
• Manchu: ᠠᠯᡤᡳᠨ (algin)
• Maori: haurongo, rongo, hau (mi), whakahirahiratanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нэр (mn) (ner), нэр хүнд (ner xünd)

• Nepali: नाम (ne) (nām)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omdømme n, ettermæle n, akt (no) m, anseelse m

  Nynorsk: omdømme n, ettermæle n

• Old English: hlīsa m
• Ottoman Turkish: صان (san)
• Pashto: شهرت (ps) m (šohrat), نام (ps) m (nām)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شُهْرَت (fa) (šohrat), نام (fa) (nâm), آبِرو (fa) (âberu), آبْرو (fa) (âbru), آوازِه (fa) (âvâze)

• Piedmontese: reputassion f
• Polish: reputacja (pl) f, renoma (pl) f
• Portuguese: reputação (pt) f, fama (pt) f
• Romanian: faimă (ro) f, reputație (ro) f
• Russian: репута́ция (ru) f (reputácija), про́филь (ru) m (prófilʹ), реноме́ (ru) n (renomɛ́)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репута́ција f, рено̀ме̄ m, у̏гле̄д m

  Roman: reputácija (sh) f, renòmē (sh) m, ȕglēd (sh) m

• Slovak: povesť f, reputácia f, renomé n (literary)
• Slovene: ugled m
• Spanish: reputación (es) f
• Swedish: rykte (sv) n, anseende (sv) n, renommé (sv)
• Tajik: шӯҳрат (šührat), ном (tg) (nom), обру (obru), обруй (obruy), овоза (ovoza)
• Tatar: абруй (tt) (abruy)
• Thai: ชื่อเสียง (th) (chʉ̂ʉ-sǐiang)
• Turkish: ün (tr), şöhret (tr), şan (tr), repütasyon (tr), nam (tr)
• Turkmen: abraý (tk), reputasiýa
• Ukrainian: репута́ція f (reputácija), реноме́ n (renomé)
• Urdu: شُہْرَت f (śuhrat), آبْرُو (ur) f (ābrū), نام (ur) m (nām)
• Uyghur: ئابروي (abroy), شۆھرەت (shöhret)
• Uzbek: obroʻ (uz), shuhrat (uz), nom (uz), reputatsiya, dong (uz)
• Vietnamese: danh giá, danh tiếng (vi)
• Yakut: репутация (reputatsiya)
• Yiddish: רעפּוטאַציע f (reputatsye)

Further reading

• “reputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “reputation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• putoranite, tau protein

Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation