reputation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The general opinion that people have about someone or something.

   The restaurant has an excellent reputation for fresh seafood.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being respected and admired.

   Years of honest work earned her a fine reputation in the community.

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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