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REPUTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being held in high esteem and honor

Synonyms:

reputation; repute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("repute" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Attribute:

reputable (having a good reputation)

disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repute"):

black eye (a bad reputation)

stock (the reputation and popularity a person has)

character (good repute)

name (a person's reputation)

fame (favorable public reputation)

Antonym:

disrepute (the state of being held in low esteem)

Derivation:

repute (look on as or consider)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "repute" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reputation (the general estimation that the public has for a person)

reputation (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)

reputation (notoriety for some particular characteristic)

repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The legend added that the only person who did not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a little second-hand shop of no very good repute, where such things were taken in exchange for gin, was more than once observed to handle them approvingly, as if admiring some curious novelty in the pattern, and considering them an improvement on his own.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have a love for you, Gaston, and I would not bring your house into ill repute, nor do such scath to these walls and chattels as must befall if two such men as this Englishman and I fall to work here.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just opposite to us, at the other side of the broad, white road, was the Friar’s Oak Inn, which was kept in my day by John Cummings, a man of excellent repute at home, but liable to strange outbreaks when he travelled, as will afterwards become apparent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)