English Online Dictionary. What means reputation? What does reputation mean?
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, which was also the word for "fame."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
- What somebody or something is known for.
- Synonyms: name, (archaic) savour
Derived terms
- reputational
- reputation economy
- reputation management
- reputation system
- your reputation precedes you
Related terms
- repute
Collocations
Translations
Further reading
- “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.
Anagrams
- putoranite, tau protein
Middle French
Noun
reputation f (plural reputations)
- reputation