repute

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Reputation, especially a good reputation.

   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
   verb

   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?

3. 3
   noun

   the state of being held in high esteem and honor

4. 4
   verb

   look on as or consider

5. 5
   verb

   To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

Etymology

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