English

Noun

repute ‎(uncountable)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:

     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.

Related terms

• disrepute
• reputable
• reputation
• ill repute

Translations

Verb

repute ‎(third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
   • Bible, Job xviii. 3

     Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • Shakespeare

     The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

   • William Wollaston

     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.

Translations

Spanish

Verb

repute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reputar.