prestige
See also: Prestige
English
Alternative forms
- præstige (archaic)
Etymology
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestigium (“a delusion, an illusion”).
Note: despite the phonetic similarities and prestige's old meaning of "delusion, illusion, trick", the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Noun
prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)
- The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige.
- (obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
- 1811, William Warburton, edited by Richard Hurd, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, →OCLC, page 121:
- That faith which, we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable to the assaults of men and demons; to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture!
Derived terms
Translations
dignity, status, or esteem
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Adjective
prestige (not comparable)
- (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
- 1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 48:
- Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time.
- 1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, →OCLC, page 57:
- The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow ̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow ̃] is the prestige form.
Further reading
- “prestige”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prestige”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “prestige”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɛs.tiʒ/
- (deprecated use of
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Noun
prestige m (plural prestiges)
- prestige
- de prestige ― prestigious
Derived terms
Further reading
- “prestige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
prestige c
Declension
Declension of prestige | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | prestige | prestigen | — | — |
Genitive | prestiges | prestigens | — | — |
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