reputation
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən//
What somebody or something is known for.
Substantiv
- 1
What somebody or something is known for.
The new manager has a reputation for being a stickler for details.
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.
Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
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.
Herkunft
14c. "credit, good reputation", from Middle English 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 Old English hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)
Formen
- Plural
- reputations
reputation · What somebody or something is known for.
request · To ask for (something).require · To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for…required · Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.