prestige
adjective/preˈstiːʒ/
/preˈstiːʒ/
[only before noun]- that brings respect and importance
- a prestige job
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- admired and respected because it looks important and expensive synonym luxury
- a prestige car
- prestige items such as jewellery and silver
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘illusion, conjuring trick’): from French, literally ‘illusion, glamour’, from late Latin praestigium ‘illusion’, from Latin praestigiae (plural) ‘conjuring tricks’. The transference of meaning occurred by way of the sense ‘dazzling influence, glamour’, at first depreciatory.
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