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語源

14c. "credit, good reputation", from 中期英語 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 古期英語 hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)

発音

• IPA: /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)

1. What somebody or something is known for.

   Synonyms: name, character, (archaic) charctersavour

   The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details.

   • 1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] ‎, Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117:

     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.

   • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12:

     Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

   • 2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian‎:

     The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.

派生語

関連する語

• repute

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参照

Further reading

• “reputation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “reputation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

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