repute — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

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   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

   Examples

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

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

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   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.

Noun

1. the state of being held in high esteem and honor

   Synonyms

   reputation

   Antonyms

   disrepute

   Broader terms

   honorhonourlaurels

Verb

1. look on as or consider

   Synonyms

   think ofknow asbe known asregard aslook uponlook onesteemtake to be

   Broader terms

   thinkbelieveconsiderconceive

   Examples

   she looked on this affair as a joke

   He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician

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   He is reputed to be intelligent