reputation
noun
- social opinion about entity
- social phenomenon
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
noun
Etymology: 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”)
- 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.”