repute

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈpjuːt/

Definition of repute

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Reputation, especially a good reputation.
    “At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Reputation, especially a good reputation.
    “At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”

verb

  1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
    “Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?”
    “The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.”
    “If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.”

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Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

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