Repute

//ɹɪˈpjuːt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Reputation, especially a good reputation. uncountable, usually

    "At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass."

  2. 2
    the state of being held in high esteem and honor wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. 2
    look on as or consider wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

    "Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?"

Synonyms

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acclaimascendancyassumeauthoritybe afraidbe known as

Example

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"It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

habit and reputeill reputemarriage by cohabitation with habit and reputemarriage by habit and reputeill repute

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