Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To ascribe a particular fact or characteristic to.
  • transitive verb To consider; suppose.
  • noun Reputation.
  • noun A good reputation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To hold in thought; account; hold; reckon; deem.
  • To estimate; value; regard.
  • noun Reputation; character; established opinion; specifically, good character; the credit or honor derived from common or public opinion.
  • noun Synonyms See list under reputation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
  • noun Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
  • noun Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Reputation, especially a good reputation.
  • verb transitive To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  • verb transitive To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb look on as or consider
  • noun the state of being held in high esteem and honor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English reputen, from Old French reputer, from Latin reputāre, to think over : re-, re- + putāre, to think over; see pau- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo ("I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider"), from re- ("again") + puto ("I think").

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Examples

  • A triple-double in a game of this magnitude, against an opponent of such repute, is preposterous.

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  • As a retired flour dealer, he possessed a snug independency, and had fitted up, for himself, a small house, for the garden of which my father, early in repute as a landscape gardener, kindly drew a variety of plans.

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  • Criticism was in repute and flourished; commentaries, notes, and quibbles, abounded on the glorious works of genius that had been written aforetime.

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  • Probably there were many that were thus kept for fortune-tellers, but, it should seem, this was more in repute than any of them; for, while others brought some gain, this brought much gain to her masters, being consulted more than any other.

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  • Of all the libels with which we are pelted the most injurious to our repute is a kindly libel, that which represents us as a nation of orators.

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  • President Felton's* name is very familiar to us; and wherever Greek scholarship is held in repute, that is known.

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  • The reader then needs to consider the American election of 2000 for some context and comparison of "repute" and "free and fair" as well as consider the history of Hamas.

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  • The commenter’s own URLs were similarly diverse, and linked to all sorts of commercial enterprises of uncertain repute.

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  • The commenter’s own URLs were similarly diverse, and linked to all sorts of commercial enterprises of uncertain repute.

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  • Sometimes the information is conveyed through secret circulars; but more commonly the deed is consummated by professed abortionists, who advertise themselves as such through innuendo, or through gaining this kind of repute by the frequent commission of the act.

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