reputation

See also: Reputation and réputation

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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”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

1. 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.

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.

SynonymsEdit

• name

Derived termsEdit

• reputational

Related termsEdit

• repute

TranslationsEdit

what somebody is known for

• Arabic: سُمْعَة‎‎ f (sumʿa), سمعَة‎‎
• Catalan: reputació (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: pověst (cs) f
• Danish: anseelse (da)
• Dutch: faam (nl) m, naam (nl) m, reputatie (nl) f
• Finnish: maine (fi)
• French: réputation (fr) f, renommée (fr) f (more slang)
• German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Klang (de) f
• Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími)
• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין‎‎ (he) m pl (monitín)
• Hungarian: hírnév (hu)
• 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)

• Korean: 평판 (ko) (pyeongpan) (評判 (ko)), 명성 (ko) (myeongseong) (名聲 (ko))
• Latin: fama f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omdømme n

  Nynorsk: omdømme n

• Polish: reputacja (pl) f, renoma (pl) f
• Portuguese: reputação (pt) f, fama (pt) f
• Romanian: faimă (ro)
• Russian: репута́ция (ru) f (reputácija), про́филь (ru) m (prófilʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
• Serbo-Croatian: reputacija (sh) f, renome (sh) m
• Spanish: reputación (es) f
• Swedish: rykte (sv), anséende, renommé (sv)
• Turkish: ün (tr), şöhret (tr), şan (tr), nam (tr)

Further readingEdit

• reputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• reputation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

AnagramsEdit

• putoranite, tau protein

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Middle FrenchEdit

NounEdit

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation