reputation
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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 (“reputation, fame”)
Pronunciation
Noun
reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
- What somebody or something is known for.
- 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12:
- Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
- 2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian:
- The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
Derived terms
- reputational
- reputation economy
- reputation management
- reputation system
- your reputation precedes you
Related terms
Collocations
with adjective in a positive sense
- good reputation
- great reputation
- excellent reputation
- spotless reputation
- stellar reputation
with adjective in a negative sense
- bad reputation
- tarnished reputation
- evil reputation
- damaged reputation
- dubious 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
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Further reading
- “reputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “reputation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
Anagrams
Middle French
Noun
reputation f (plural reputations)