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prestige::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prestigiousness |
| Type of | standing |
| Derivation | prestigious |
he wanted to achieve power and prestige.
Examples of prestige
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Udinese can't offer huge salaries or the prestige of playing for a massive club.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Prestige vendors all over town are revising their prices to meet the new market.
From the smh.com.au
Surely this is a prestige film that any studio would want to trumpet to critics.
From the kentucky.com
The leaders have pinned their own and the country's prestige to high-speed rail.
From the economist.com
I really like prestige German marques but they don't seem to make small hybrids.
From the telegraph.co.uk
There is nothing else, the kudos and prestige have long ago gone out the window.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Prestige Academy, which targets minority and low-income children, opened Monday.
From the delawareonline.com
The perfect mark would mean high prestige and even loftier value as a broodmare.
From the chron.com
The effect was to boost a monarch's prestige and cement his political authority.
From the time.com
- A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige"
- The Prestige was a Liberian-owned oil tanker, operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain.
- The Prestige was an oil tanker whose sinking in 2002 off the Galician coast caused a large oil spill. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish and French coast, as well as causing great damage to the local fishing industry. ...
- In sociolinguistics, prestige describes the level of respect accorded to a language or dialect as compared to that of other languages or dialects in a speech community. The concept of prestige in sociolinguistics is closely related to that of prestige or class within a society. ...
- Prestige is a word commonly used to describe reputation or esteem, though it has three somewhat related meanings that, to some degree, may be contradictory. Which meaning applies depends on the historical context and the person using the word.
- The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest. The novel is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of real diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated. ...
- The Prestige is the eighth album by Danish death metal band Illdisposed.
- The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
- Delusion; illusion; trick; The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded
