reputation

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

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, […] ‎, 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, Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, page 12:

     Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

• 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.

• name

• reputational

• repute

• 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.

• putoranite, tau protein

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation