REPUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repute mean? 

• REPUTE (noun)
  The noun REPUTE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REPUTE used as a noun is very rare.

• REPUTE (verb)
  The verb REPUTE has 1 sense:

1. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: REPUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being held in high esteem and honor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

reputation; repute

Hypernyms ("repute" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Attribute:

reputable (having a good reputation)

disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repute"):

black eye (a bad reputation)

stock (the reputation and popularity a person has)

character (good repute)

name (a person's reputation)

fame (favorable public reputation)

Antonym:

disrepute (the state of being held in low esteem)

Derivation:

repute (look on as or consider)

• REPUTE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "repute" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reputation (the general estimation that the public has for a person)

reputation (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)

reputation (notoriety for some particular characteristic)

repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor)

 Context examples 

The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no distance from the station, and there we found the young lady waiting for us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am in high repute for my accomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You have known my father and my kin: is not my family one of good standing and repute?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of the Captain I knew little, save that he was not of the best repute, and was deep in the hands of the Jews.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will perceive that Mr. Percival Waldron, a naturalist of some popular repute, is announced to lecture at eight-thirty at the Zoological Institute's Hall upon 'The Record of the Ages.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Goddard's school was in high repute—and very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Ford, they are of a south Saxon stock, and of good repute.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought of Sir Lothian’s murderous repute as a duellist, and I trembled for my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Summerlee desired to know how it was that Professor Challenger claimed to have made discoveries in those regions which had been overlooked by Wallace, Bates, and other previous explorers of established scientific repute.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)