prestige
/pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
Uncountable
noun
The act of starting over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
Uncountable
adj
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.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Oxford has a university of very high prestige."
- "But in such an instance a false belief will appear with all the prestige of the latest scientific knowledge supporting it."
- "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!"
- "Rather than relying on the genre-standard “prestige,” the act of resetting your progress to earn a larger modifier on your next attempt, SPACEPLAN resets its progress by sending you to a new planet so that it can both reset your progress and advance the narrative. […] Prestige can sometimes feel like a defeat; “I guess I’ve made it as far as I can, I’ll have to start over.”"
- "When Season 1 starts, so does prestige for anyone who has reached level 55."
- "There's new Omnimovement, changes to progression and prestige, the option to share your best weapon builds."
Etymology
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: prestige, praestīgium