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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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 notes

• 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.

Synonyms

• name

Derived terms

• reputational

Related terms

• repute

Translations

what somebody is known for

• Arabic: سُمْعَة‎ f (sumʿa), سمعَة‎

  Egyptian Arabic: صيت‎ m (ṣīt)

• 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)

  Ancient: φήμη f (phḗmē)

• 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: fāma f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omdømme n, ettermæle n

  Nynorsk: omdømme n, ettermæle 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 reading

• 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.

Anagrams

• putoranite, tau protein

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Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation