reputation
See also: Reputation and réputation
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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."
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NounEdit
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, […] [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, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith[2], Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, page 12:
- Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
Usage notesEdit
- 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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TranslationsEdit
what somebody is known for
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Further readingEdit
- “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.
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NounEdit
reputation f (plural reputations)