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Definition of prestigious adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

prestigious

adjective
 
 
/preˈstɪdʒəs/
 
/preˈstiːdʒəs/
[usually before noun]
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  1. 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
    adverb
    • 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.
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