Repute vs Hail - What's the difference?
repute | hail |
Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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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.
To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
* Bible, Job xviii. 3
* Shakespeare
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
(impersonal) Said of the weather when hail is falling.
to send or release hail
to greet; give salutation to; salute.
To name; to designate; to call.
* Milton
to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between repute and hail
is that repute is while hail is (impersonal) said of the weather when hail is falling or hail can be to greet; give salutation to; salute.As a noun hail is
balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.As an adjective hail is
(obsolete) healthy, whole, safe.As an interjection hail is
an exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.repute
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(reput)- 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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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) haile, hail, from (etyl) ). Root-cognates outside of Germanic include (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* hailstone * hail storm / hailstorm * hail shaft / hailshaftVerb
(en verb)- They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
- The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes .
Etymology 2
The adjective hail is a variant of (from the early 13th century). The transitive verb with the meaning "to salute" is also from the 13th century. The cognate verb heal is already Old English (. Also cognate is whole, from Old English (the spelling with wh- is unetymological, introduced in the 15th century).Verb
(en verb)- And such a son as all men hailed me happy.
- He was hailed as a hero.
- Hail a taxi.
Derived terms
* hailer * hail fromInterjection
(en-intj)- Hail , brave friend.