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reputation

/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/

reputation noun: what somebody or something is known for.

Noun

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

  1. What somebody or something is known for.
    • The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details.
    • And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation
      or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] , Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117
    Synonyms:
    name, character, charctersavour, face, standing, stock

reputation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

reputation in Hindi

what somebody is known for
प्रतिष्ठा pratiṣṭhā, प्रसिद्धि prasiddhi, नाम nām, शोहरत śohrat, आबरू ābrū

reputation in Tamil

what somebody is known for
பெயர் peyar, புகழ் pukaḻ

reputation in Marathi

reputation
ख्याती khyātī
reputation; respectability
गौरव gaurav

reputation in Urdu

what somebody is known for
شُہْرَت śuhrat, آبْرُو ābrū, نام nām
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reputation in Bengali
শোহরৎ śōhorot, আব্রু abru
reputation in Telugu
ఖ్యాతి khyāti
reputation in Malayalam
പുകൾ, പുകഴ്ച, പ്രശസ്തി, ഖ്യാതി
reputation in Kannada
ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಹೆಸರು, ಒಳ್ಳೆಹೆಸರು, ಕೀರ್ತಿ, ಯಶಸ್ಸು
reputation in Punjabi
وزن vazan, مچھ mucch, مونہہ mūṉh
reputation in Gujarati
બોલબાલા bolbālā
reputation in Odia
ମାନ māna
reputation in Assamese
নাম nam
reputation in Nepali
नाम nām
reputation in Pashto
شهرت šohrat, نام nām
reputation in Arabic
سُمْعَة sumʕa, شُهْرَة šuhra, صِيت ṣīt, اِشْتِهَار ištihār
reputation in Malay
reputasi
reputation in Indonesian
reputasi
reputation in Thai
ชื่อเสียง chʉ̂ʉ-sǐiang
reputation in Vietnamese
danh giá, danh tiếng
reputation in Myanmar
အသရေ a.sa.re, သိန် sin, ဂုဏ်သရေ gunsa.re, ဂုဏ် gun

Examples of reputation in a sentence

  • His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
  • With their reputation on the line, they decided to fire their PR team.
  • You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.

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Synonyms of reputation

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Forms of reputation

pluralreputations

Plural of reputation: reputations

Origin of reputation

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”)

Words formed from reputation

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Questions about reputation

What does reputation mean?
Reputation means what somebody or something is known for.
What is reputation in Hindi?
Reputation in Hindi is प्रतिष्ठा (pratiṣṭhā), प्रसिद्धि (prasiddhi), नाम (nām). See Reputation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is reputation?
Reputation is a noun.
How do you pronounce reputation?
Reputation is pronounced /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/.
What is the plural of reputation?
The plural of reputation is reputations.

Words near reputation in the dictionary

  1. reput
  2. reputability
  3. reputable
  4. reputableness
  5. reputably
  6. reputation
  7. reputation economies
  8. reputation economy
  9. reputation management
  10. reputation system
  11. reputation systems

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reputation (page history and authors); ख्याती (Marathi) (page history and authors); ఖ్యాతి (Telugu) (page history and authors); reputation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reputation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مونہہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); બોલબાલા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ମାନ (Odia) (page history and authors); নাম (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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