repute
/ɹɪˈpjuːt/
repute noun: reputation, especially a good reputation.
Noun
repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)
- 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...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
Verb
repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)
- To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
- 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?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 18:3
- 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)...
repute meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
repute in Tamil
- நிவப்பு, புகழ்ப்பெயர்
repute in Urdu
- آبرو, افتخار, نام, بیان کرنا
repute in Bengali
- reputation, especially a good reputation
- শোহরৎ śōhorot
repute in Malayalam
- പുകൾ, കീർത്തി, യശസ്സ്
More languagesFewer languages
- repute in Kannada
- ನೆಲಸು, ಎಣಿಸು, ಗಣಿಸು, ಭಾವಿಸು
Forms of repute
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | reputes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | reputes |
| present participle | reputing |
| past participle | reputed |
| past | reputed |
Origin of repute
From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).
Words formed from repute
Phrases with repute
Words that rhyme with repute
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about repute
- What does repute mean?
- Repute means reputation, especially a good reputation.
- What is repute in Tamil?
- Repute in Tamil is நிவப்பு, புகழ்ப்பெயர். See Repute meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is repute?
- Repute can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce repute?
- Repute is pronounced /ɹɪˈpjuːt/.
- What is the plural of repute?
- The plural of repute is reputes.
Words near repute in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: repute (page history and authors); repute (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repute (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repute (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repute (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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