- respected and admired as very important or of very high quality
- a prestigious award
- a highly prestigious university
- My parents wanted me to go to a more prestigious university.
- the city’s most prestigious and exclusive hotel
- The Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious events in the racing calendar.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘practising conjuring tricks’): from late Latin praestigiosus, from praestigiae ‘conjuring tricks’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.Want to learn more?
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