reputation

reputation

See also: Reputation and réputation

English

Etymology

14c. "credit, good reputation", from Middle English reputacion, reputacioun, reputation, reputatioun, from Anglo-Norman reputacion, reputacioun, Middle French reputation (French réputation), and their etymon Latin reputātiōnem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputō (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + putō (“reckon, consider”).[1] By surface analysis, repute +‎ -ation. Displaced native Old English hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

  1. What somebody or something is known for.
    Synonyms: name, character, (archaic) charctersavour, face
    The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details.
    • 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, 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[3]:
      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

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

References

  1. ^ “reputation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Anagrams

Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

  1. reputation
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