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Reputation

//ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    What somebody or something is known for. countable, uncountable

    "The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details."

  2. 2
    the general estimation that the public has for a person wordnet
  3. 3
    the state of being held in high esteem and honor wordnet
  4. 4
    notoriety for some particular characteristic wordnet

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”). By surface analysis, repute + -ation. Displaced native Old English hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)

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