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prestige
/pɹɛˈstiʒ/
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What does prestige mean?
noun
- The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
- The act of starting over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
- A level, rank, or tier corresponding to prestige.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
verb
- To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
- To start (something) over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
noun
- (obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹɛˈstiʒ/
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That all the intellectual prestige of the Church should be lent to the support of vagueness, futility, and deliberate evasion?
While Robespierre was causing the execution of his colleagues and of a great number of his contemporaries, he possessed an immense prestige.
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It had behind it not only forty millions of capital, but the prestige of the Vanderbilts, and the favor of financiers everywhere.
How was she to keep up her prestige among her schoolmates if she were forbidden to make capital out of the family ghost?
The prestige of this achievement made it the easier for Theron to get away by himself next day, and walk in the woods.