REPUTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reputation mean? 

• REPUTATION (noun)
  The noun REPUTATION has 3 senses:

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

2. notoriety for some particular characteristic

3. the general estimation that the public has for a person

  Familiarity information: REPUTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUTATION (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 ("reputation" 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 "reputation"):

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)

Derivation:

repute (look on as or consider)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Notoriety for some particular characteristic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

his reputation for promiscuity

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

ill fame; notoriety (the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality)

Derivation:

repute (look on as or consider)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The general estimation that the public has for a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

report; reputation

Context example:

he was a person of bad report

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

estimate; estimation (the respect with which a person is held)

Derivation:

repute (look on as or consider)

 Context examples 

I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excellent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Being an absolutely selfish man, when a chance presented itself he did not allow either his sister’s happiness or your reputation to hold his hand.

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

“Your growing reputation and success enlarge your power of doing good; and if I could spare my brother,” with her eyes upon me, “perhaps the time could not.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Two years ago, starting on December 19, 2017, Saturn first entered your same tenth house of career reputation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"The husband seems then to have had a not very savory reputation in San Francisco?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You may have heard of any little reputation which I possess.

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

I had heard of him before as being a man of evil reputation among women.

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

He acquired a reputation for wickedness amongst the man-animals themselves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I won't undertake to say what it was, but I'll risk my reputation as a sportsman that it wasn't any bird that ever I clapped eyes on in my life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to their well-deserved reputation as beautiful cosmic objects, comets hold vital clues about our solar system's history.

(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)