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”). Displaced native Old English hlīsa, which was also the word for "fame."

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.

   • 1928, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎^[2], Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, page 12:

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

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

• Albanian: reputacion m
• Arabic: سُمْعَة‎ f (sumʿa), شُهْرَة‎ f (šuhra), صِيت‎ m (ṣīt), اِشْتِهَار‎ m (ištihār)

  Egyptian Arabic: صيت‎ m (ṣīt)

• Armenian: համբավ (hy) (hambav)
• Azerbaijani: ad (az), şöhrət (az)
• Bashkir: абруй (abruy)
• Belarusian: рэпута́цыя f (reputácyja), рэнамэ́ n (renamé)
• Bengali: শোহরৎ (śohrôt), আব্রু (abru)
• Bulgarian: репута́ция (bg) f (reputácija), реноме́ (bg) n (renomé)
• Burmese: အသရေ (my) (a.sa.re), သိန် (my) (sin), ဂုဏ်သရေ (my) (gunsa.re), ဂုဏ် (my) (gun)
• 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, reputace f, renomé (cs) n (literary)
• Danish: anseelse (da) c, omdømme n
• Dutch: faam (nl) m, naam (nl) m, reputatie (nl) f, aanzien (nl) n
• Estonian: maine (et), reputatsioon
• Finnish: maine (fi)
• French: réputation (fr) f, renommée (fr) f (more slang)
• Galician: reputación (gl) m, creto (gl) m
• Georgian: რეპუტაცია (reṗuṭacia)
• German: Ansehen (de) n, Ruf (de) m, Klang (de) f, Bekanntheit (de) f, Reputation (de) f
• Gothic: (good) 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹 f (wailamērei)
• Greek: φήμη (el) f (fími)

  Ancient: φήμη f (phḗmē)

• Hebrew: מוֹנִיטִין‎ (he) m pl (monitín)
• Hindi: प्रतिष्ठा (hi) f (pratiṣṭhā), प्रसिद्धि (hi) f (prasiddhi), नाम (hi) m (nām), शोहरत (hi) f (śohrat), आबरू (hi) f (ābrū)
• 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)
• Kazakh: абырой (abıroy), атақ (ataq), бедел (bedel), бетбедел (betbedel)
• Khmer: កិត្តិ (km) (kətteʼ), កិរ្តិ៍ (km) (kei)
• Korean: 평판(評判) (ko) (pyeongpan), 명성(名聲) (ko) (myeongseong)
• Kyrgyz: репутация (ky) (reputatsiya), абруй (ky) (abruy), бедел (ky) (bedel), абийир (ky) (abiyir)

• Lao: ຊື່ສຽງ (sư̄ sīang)
• Latin: fāma f
• Latvian: reputācija f
• Lithuanian: reputacija f
• Macedonian: репутација f (reputacija), реноме́ n (renomé)
• Malay: reputasi
• Manchu: ᠠᠯᡤᡳᠨ (algin)
• Maori: haurongo, rongo
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нэр (mn) (ner), нэр хүнд (ner khünd)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omdømme n, ettermæle n, akt (no) m, anseelse m

  Nynorsk: omdømme n, ettermæle n

• Old English: hlīsa m
• Pashto: شهرت‎ (ps) m (šohrát), نام‎ (ps) m (nām)
• Persian: شهرت‎ (fa) (šohrat), نام‎ (fa) (nâm), آبرو‎‎ (âberu), آوازه‎ (fa) (âvâze)
• Piedmontese: reputassion f
• Polish: reputacja (pl) f, renoma (pl) f
• Portuguese: reputação (pt) f, fama (pt) f
• Romanian: faimă (ro) f, reputatie f
• Russian: репута́ция (ru) f (reputácija), про́филь (ru) m (prófilʹ), реноме́ (ru) n (renomɛ́)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliù m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репута́ција f, рено̀ме̄ m, у̏гле̄д m

  Roman: reputácija (sh) f, renòmē (sh) m, ȕglēd (sh) m

• Slovak: povesť f, reputácia f, renomé n (literary)
• Slovene: ugled m
• Spanish: reputación (es) f
• Swedish: rykte (sv) n, anseende (sv) n, renommé (sv)
• Tajik: шӯҳрат (šührat), ном (tg) (nom)
• Tatar: абруй (tt) (abruy)
• Thai: ชื่อเสียง (th) (chʉ̂ʉ-sǐiang)
• Turkish: ün (tr), şöhret (tr), şan (tr), repütasyon (tr), nam (tr)
• Turkmen: abraý (tk), reputasiýa
• Ukrainian: репута́ція f (reputácija), реноме́ n (renomé)
• Urdu: شہرت‎ f (śohrat), آبرو‎ (ur) f (ābrū), نام‎‎ m (nām)
• Uyghur: ئابروي‎ (abroy), شۆھرەت‎ (shöhret)
• Uzbek: obroʻ (uz), shuhrat (uz), nom (uz), reputatsiya, dong (uz)
• Vietnamese: danh giá, danh tiếng (vi)
• Yiddish: רעפּוטאַציע‎ f (reputatsye)

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• putoranite, tau protein

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Middle French

Noun

reputation f (plural reputations)

1. reputation