repute

[ ri-pyoot ]

noun

1. estimation in the view of others; reputation:

   persons of good repute.

2. favorable reputation; good name; public respect.

   Synonyms: honor, distinction

   Antonyms: dishonor

verb (used with object)

, re·put·ed, re·put·ing.

1. to consider or believe (a person or thing) to be as specified; regard (usually used in the passive):

   He was reputed to be a millionaire.

   Synonyms: reckon, deem, hold

repute

/ rɪˈpjuːt /

verb

1. tr; usually passive to consider (a person or thing) to be as specified

   he is reputed to be intelligent

noun

1. public estimation; reputation

   a writer of little repute

Word History and Origins

Origin of repute¹

1400–50; late Middle English reputen (v.) < Middle French reputer < Latin reputāre to compute, consider, equivalent to re- re- + putāre to think

Word History and Origins

Origin of repute¹

C15: from Old French reputer , from Latin reputāre to think over, from re- + putāre to think

Synonym Study

See credit.

Example Sentences

For Zuzia Whelan and her 80-year-old grandmother, this salad is as important as any dish of repute.

From Ozy

Some of these critics, notably Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer, later became filmmakers of international repute.

From The Daily Beast

Erik Rush, a semiliterate “pundit” of no repute, tweeted that Saudis should be aggressively profiled at American airports.

From The Daily Beast

Name Synonyms;
reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute.

From The Daily Beast

“Neighbors of the Anderson's [ sic] advised that family was of good repute,” Caulfield wrote in a memo.

From The Daily Beast

A 15-year-old girl is “a five-foot-ten-inch mantis of legendary poise and ballet repute.”

From The Daily Beast

His Indian repute had not preceded him to such degree as to make the way easy for him through the London crowd.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Tremayne, I am a man of substantial position, and perhaps I may say of some repute in serious circles.

From Project Gutenberg

Accordingly the Shasters were, for a time, in high repute among those who knew very little about them.

From Project Gutenberg

In Venezuela it is an important article of agriculture, and the product is of fine quality and in good repute in Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

Joke indeed there is none, but it is the popular repute or suspicion of a jest that exercises this fascination.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• renown