Definitions for reputation
ˌrɛp yəˈteɪ ʃənrep·u·ta·tion

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. repute, reputation(noun)

   the state of being held in high esteem and honor

2. reputation(noun)

   notoriety for some particular characteristic

   "his reputation for promiscuity"

3. reputation, report(noun)

   the general estimation that the public has for a person

   "he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing"; "he was a person of bad report"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. reputation(Noun)

   What somebody is known for.

Webster Dictionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Reputation(verb)

   the estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute

2. Reputation(verb)

   the character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case

3. Reputation(verb)

   specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name

4. Reputation(verb)

   account; value

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Reputation

   Reputation of a social entity is an opinion about that entity, typically a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria. It is important in business, education, online communities, and many other fields. Reputation may be considered as a component of identity as defined by others. Reputation is known to be a ubiquitous, spontaneous, and highly efficient mechanism of social control in natural societies. It is a subject of study in social, management and technological sciences. Its influence ranges from competitive settings, like markets, to cooperative ones, like firms, organisations, institutions and communities. Furthermore, reputation acts on different levels of agency, individual and supra-individual. At the supra-individual level, it concerns groups, communities, collectives and abstract social entities. It affects phenomena of different scales, from everyday life to relationships between nations. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of social order, based upon distributed, spontaneous social control.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Reputation

   rep-ū-tā′shun, n. state of being held in repute: estimation: character in public opinion: credit: fame.—adj. Rep′ūtable, in good repute: respectable: honourable: consistent with reputation.—n. Rep′ūtableness.—adv. Rep′ūtably.—adj. Rep′ūtātive, reputed: putative.—adv. Rep′ūtātively, by repute. [Fr.,—L. reputation-em, consideration—re-putāre, to think over.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. reputation

   A bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. REPUTATION

   A personal possession, frequently not discovered until lost.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reputation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2695

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reputation' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4716

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reputation' in Nouns Frequency: #1129

How to pronounce reputation?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reputation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reputation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of reputation in a Sentence

1. John Strickland:

   Naresh Goyal founded the company with big ambitions and good ideals in terms of developing that airline, and it established itself with a great reputation for service quality at its peak.

2. John Brennan:

   If my clearances and my reputation, as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a small price to pay, so I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future, and if it means going to court, I will do that.

3. Lamar Odom:

   [ I have ] nightmares trying to figure out how I got there, it's frustrating because I didn't do any drugs that night. I don't know [ what caused it ]. Whatever someone slipped me, it was damn good. There was some cocaine and something else in my system, but I didn't do anything that night. It's kind of hard for people to believe that when you have a reputation for doing drugs, so that's one thing that hopefully will get cleared up one day about what happened.

4. President Sullivan:

   I want to make it perfectly clear to you, and to the watching world that nothing is more important to me than the safety of our students, not our reputation, not our success, and not our history or tradition.

5. Adam Lankford:

   Our homicide rate is higher than comparable European nations. If anything, though, it is these kinds of attacks that make us stand out so negatively from the rest of the world and give us this violent reputation as a country, frankly, if we want to give the world a message from what we've learned from all of this, is to say that, 'It is possible, these things do happen, so be prepared and learn from it before you have a tragedy of your own.'.

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