Meaning of "repute" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REPUTE

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputāre to think over, from re- + putāre to think.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF REPUTE

repute  [rɪˈpjuːt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPUTE

Repute is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb repute in English.

WHAT DOES REPUTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

Definition of repute in the English dictionary

The definition of repute in the dictionary is to consider to be as specified. Other definition of repute is public estimation; reputation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REPUTE

PRESENT

Present

I repute

you repute

he/she/it reputes

we repute

you repute

they repute

Present continuous

I am reputing

you are reputing

he/she/it is reputing

we are reputing

you are reputing

they are reputing

Present perfect

I have reputed

you have reputed

he/she/it has reputed

we have reputed

you have reputed

they have reputed

Present perfect continuous

I have been reputing

you have been reputing

he/she/it has been reputing

we have been reputing

you have been reputing

they have been reputing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I reputed

you reputed

he/she/it reputed

we reputed

you reputed

they reputed

Past continuous

I was reputing

you were reputing

he/she/it was reputing

we were reputing

you were reputing

they were reputing

Past perfect

I had reputed

you had reputed

he/she/it had reputed

we had reputed

you had reputed

they had reputed

Past perfect continuous

I had been reputing

you had been reputing

he/she/it had been reputing

we had been reputing

you had been reputing

they had been reputing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will repute

you will repute

he/she/it will repute

we will repute

you will repute

they will repute

Future continuous

I will be reputing

you will be reputing

he/she/it will be reputing

we will be reputing

you will be reputing

they will be reputing

Future perfect

I will have reputed

you will have reputed

he/she/it will have reputed

we will have reputed

you will have reputed

they will have reputed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been reputing

you will have been reputing

he/she/it will have been reputing

we will have been reputing

you will have been reputing

they will have been reputing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would repute

you would repute

he/she/it would repute

we would repute

you would repute

they would repute

Conditional continuous

I would be reputing

you would be reputing

he/she/it would be reputing

we would be reputing

you would be reputing

they would be reputing

Conditional perfect

I would have repute

you would have repute

he/she/it would have repute

we would have repute

you would have repute

they would have repute

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been reputing

you would have been reputing

he/she/it would have been reputing

we would have been reputing

you would have been reputing

they would have been reputing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you repute
we let´s repute
you repute

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to repute

Past participle

reputed

Present Participle

reputing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «REPUTE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «repute» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of repute

celebrity · character · distinction · eminence · esteem · estimation · fame · name · renown · reputation · standing · stature

TRANSLATION OF REPUTE

Find out the translation of repute to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of repute from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repute» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 号称
• Translator English - Spanish: tener reputación
• English: repute
• Translator English - Hindi: ख्याति
• Translator English - Arabic: السمعة
• Translator English - Russian: репутация
• Translator English - Portuguese: ter reputação
• Translator English - Bengali: খ্যাতি
• Translator English - French: avoir la réputation
• Translator English - Malay: Terkenal
• Translator English - German: annehmen
• Translator English - Japanese: 評判する
• Translator English - Korean: ~라고 간주되는
• Translator English - Javanese: Pinter
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thanh danh
• Translator English - Tamil: பேரும் புகழும்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रतिष्ठा
• Translator English - Turkish: saygınlık
• Translator English - Italian: considerare
• Translator English - Polish: nieposzlakowanej opinii
• Translator English - Ukrainian: репутація
• Translator English - Romanian: reputație
• Translator English - Greek: φήμη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: aansien
• Translator English - Swedish: anseende
• Translator English - Norwegian: anseelse

4 QUOTES WITH «REPUTE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repute.

1

Charles H. Percy

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

2

Tacitus

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

3

Thorstein Veblen

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

4

John Zimmerman

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPUTE»

Discover the use of repute in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repute and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in ...

Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more present in the novels and paintings of the time.

Charles Bernheimer, 1997

Whatever Happened to Molly Murphy's House of Fine Repute?

Now, Author Jeffiee Tayar, its former owner, tells how the restaurant came to be, how it survived for so many years, and how it fell following "the Incident.

Jeffiee Tayar, 2007

Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in ...

Written in a lively, accessible, and jargon-free style, this text is essential for upper level undergraduate history courses on medieval history and women's history as well as for English courses on medieval literature.

Barbara Hanawalt, 1998

House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's ...

Since his landslide re-election in a state dominated by Democrats,

William Rivers Pitt, 2007

Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early ...

"This collection of essays shows the remarkable strides the study of gender has made in the decades since Barbara Todd helped reshape the field through her publications and teaching.

Kim Kippen, Lori Woods, 2011

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

The price system of a knowledge market includes reciprocity, repute and altruism (Davenport & Prusak, 1998). Reciprocity implies payment in terms of knowledge. A knowledge seller will spend the time and effort needed to share knowledge ...

Petter Gottschalk, 2005

The Interpretation of St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

This is made still easier by placing the dative forward: " — before me on my part ' those in repute' placed nothing." Count my repute what you will — such as I was and still am, these men in high repute, according to the phraseology of the ...

R. C. H. Lenski

English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...

Universities, academies, and public institutions, acquire a reputation for their learning, their skill, their encouragement and promotion of the arts or sciences : the name and reputation are of a more extended nature than the repute and the credit ...

George Crabb, 1818

English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...

Strangers and distant countries hear of the name and the reputation of anything ; hut only neighbours and those who have the means of personal observation can take a part in its repute and credit. It is possible, therefore, to have a name and ...

George Crabb, 1846

Considerations on the inexpediency of the law of marriage in ...

Patrick Irvine. CHAPTER VI. ON MARRIAGE CONSTITUTED OR PROVED BY HABIT AND REPUTE. The only other mode of constituting or proving chap. vi. marriage, which now remains to be considered, is by cohabitation or living together in ...

Patrick Irvine, 1828

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPUTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repute is used in the context of the following news items.

Once a Famed House Of Ill-Repute, Now Affordable Housing

Erickson's Saloon in Portland once boasted a 680-foot bar, free lunches (as long as alcohol was purchased) and a brothel in the upstairs “cribs” of the building. «OPB News, Jul 15»

Deporting NGO activists blackening India's repute as vibrant …

The order to cancel the registration of such organisations came days before the Centre's effort to tighten the grip on prominent NGOs that receive foreign funds ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»

The House of good repute

As the outcome of the Marriage Equality Referendum proved beyond question, engaging specific demographic groups with slick marketing pays off handsomely. «Irish Independent, May 15»

Barbara Phythian: Second World War army driver of repute who …

She was the wife of the late Doug Phythian, mother of John and Rex and grandmother to Mark, Andrew, Misha and Alex. Barbara was educated at Burrowmoor ... «Wisbech Standard, May 15»

Painful crash brings repute

University of Otago exchange student Zach Kornse borrowed his flatmate's bike to ride the two blocks from his Castle St flat to the campus on Wednesday ... «Otago Daily Times, May 15»

New food safety mark to help lift repute of Lima restaurants

In another sign of Peru's commitment to promoting excellence in food, a new government–industry partnership aims to raise standards of safety and hygiene in ... «Peru this Week, Apr 15»

'Gotham' Recap: Houses of Ill Repute

Two of the greatest TV dramas of all time — The Sopranos and Mad Men — often had a habit of wrapping most major plot points up in the penultimate episode of ... «Comic Book Resources, Apr 15»

Salute Beirut: City of Repute

It's been called the Paris of the Middle East, and today you'll find Lebanon's capital is a dynamic, buzzing metropolis that sits proudly and comfortably between ... «SourceWire, Apr 15»

Repeat houses of ill-repute

Sunday, March 29, 2015 1:55 PM EDT. Repeat houses of ill-repute. Drug, prostitution suspect now held in shooting. BY JONATHAN SHUGARTS REPUBLICAN- ... «Waterbury Republican American, Mar 15»

Spill Repute. // Eight Years In, Spillover Is Dallas' Most Interesting Fest.

We've stopped going to SXSW in recent years, partly because it's just the worst but also because Parade of Flesh's annual Spillover fest each year seems to ... «Central Track, Mar 15»