repute
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of repute
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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
- To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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