repute

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/ɹɪˈpjuːt/

noun

Reputation, especially a good reputation.

Similar
reputationthink ofknow asbe known asregard aslook uponlook onesteem
Opposite
disrepute
OriginOld French reputer ← Latin reputō →
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Meanings

nounrepute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

plural reputes

  1. uncountableusuallyReputation, especially a good reputation.
    1 more example

    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.

    1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
verbrepute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

present singular third person reputes · participle present reputing · participle past reputed · past reputed

  1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

    The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

    1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]
    2 more examples

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

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 18:3

    If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

    1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe state of being held in high esteem and honor

Similar
reputation
Opposite
disrepute
Broader
honorhonourlaurels

verblook on as or consider

Similar
think ofknow asbe known asregard aslook uponlook onesteemtake to be
Broader
thinkbelieveconsider
Also see
brandesteemlook onlook uponodorregardreputationthink of

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinreputō“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”
  2. Old Frenchreputer
  3. Englishrepute

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

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Translations

Bengali শোহরৎ
  • শোহরৎ (śōhorot)reputation, especially a good reputation
Bulgarian репутация, реноме́
  • репутация (reputacija)reputation, especially a good reputation
  • реноме́ (renomé)reputation, especially a good reputation
Chinese Mandarin 聲望 /声望, 對聲望 /对声望
  • 聲望 /声望 (shēngwàng)reputation, especially a good reputation
  • 對聲望 /对声望 (duì shēngwàng)to attribute or credit something to something
Czech reputace
  • reputacereputation, especially a good reputation
Dutch reputatie de
  • reputatie dereputation, especially a good reputation
Esperanto reputacio
  • reputacioreputation, especially a good reputation
Finnish maine
  • mainereputation, especially a good reputation
French réputation
  • réputationreputation, especially a good reputation
German Ruf
  • Rufreputation, especially a good reputation
Greek φήμη
  • φήμη (fími)reputation, especially a good reputation
Hebrew מוֹנִיטִין, שֵׁם
  • מוֹנִיטִין (monitin)reputation, especially a good reputation
  • שֵׁם (shaym)reputation, especially a good reputation
  • נֶחְשַׁב (nekhshav)to attribute or credit something to something
  • חָשַׁב ל (khashav le-)to attribute or credit something to something
Italian rinomanza
  • rinomanzareputation, especially a good reputation
Japanese 評判
  • 評判reputation, especially a good reputation
Korean 평판
  • 평판 (pyeongpan)reputation, especially a good reputation
Portuguese reputação, reputar
  • reputaçãoreputation, especially a good reputation
  • reputarto attribute or credit something to something
Russian до́брая сла́ва
  • до́брая сла́ва (dóbraja sláva)reputation, especially a good reputation
Spanish reputación
  • reputaciónreputation, especially a good reputation
Swedish renommé
  • renomméreputation, especially a good reputation

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with repute

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Anagrams

Purteeuptree
Cite this entry
APA

repute. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repute

MLA

“repute.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repute. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repute,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repute.

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