Prestige

Noun

 * 1) The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded
 * 2)  Delusion; illusion; trick.

Adjectives for Prestige
intellectual; frantic; national; original; unprecedented; considerable; glorious; battered; military; relative; enormous; extended; weighty; external; mysterious; personal;

Verbs for Prestige
acquire—; aspire to—; augment—; capitalize—; crack—; enhance—; enjoy—; extend—to; gain—; guarantee—; impair—; lessen—; lower—; preserve—; revive—; rival—; solidify—; threaten—; weaken—; —declines; —jumps.

Thesaurus
respect, reverence, reverential regard, right-of-way, rule, salience, say, seniority, significance, skill, standing, stardom, state, station, stature, status, suasion, subtle influence, success, suggestion, superiority, supremacy, sway, transcendence, transcendency, upper hand, veneration, virtuosity, weight, weightiness, whip hand, worship, accomplishment, admiration, adoration, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, ascendancy, authority, awe, breathless adoration, cachet, celebrity, charisma, charm, clout, consequence, consideration, control, courtesy, credit, deanship, deference, deification, dignity, distinction, dominance, domination, duty, effect, eminence, enchantment, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, excellence, face, fame, favor, force, glamor, glory, good feeling, great respect, greatness, hero worship, high place, high regard, hold, homage, honor, idolatry, idolization, illustriousness, importance, incidental power, incomparability, influence, influentiality, influentialness, inimitability, insinuation, kudos, lead, leadership, leverage, magnetism, majority, mastery, memorability, moment, notability, noteworthiness, one-upmanship, personality, persuasion, position, potency, power, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, primacy, priority, privilege, prominence, purchase, rank, regard, reign, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute,

Alternative forms

 * præstige

Etymology
From prestige:
 * < praestigium:
 * < praestinguere:
 * < prae: + stinguere:; or
 * < praestringere:
 * < prae: + stringere:.


 * Note: despite the phonetic similarities and prestige's old meaning of "delusion, illusion, trick", the word has a different root than prestidigitator and prestidigitation.

Derived terms

 * prestigious

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: prästig

Noun

 * de prestige - prestigious
 * de prestige - prestigious

Derived terms

 * prestigieux

Noun

 * 1) prestige

Related terms

 * prestigelös