reputation
See also: Reputation and réputation
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Etymology edit
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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reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
- What somebody or something 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, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith[2], 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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what somebody is known for
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Further reading edit
- “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.
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reputation f (plural reputations)