prestige
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- præstige (archaic)
[edit] Etymology
From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”)
- , from Latin praestigium (“a delusion, an illusion”)
- , from praestinguere (“to obscure,extinguish”)
- , from praestringere (“to blind; to blindfold; to dazzle or confuse someone”)
- Note: despite the phonetic similarities and prestige's old meaning of "delusion, illusion, trick", the word has a different root than prestidigitator and prestidigitation.
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[edit] Noun
prestige (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
- William Warburton:
- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- William Warburton:
- The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige.
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[edit] External links
- prestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prestige in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- prestige at OneLook Dictionary Search
[edit] French
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[edit] Noun
prestige m. (plural prestiges)
- prestige
- de prestige - prestigious
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[edit] Noun
prestige c.
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Declension of prestige
| uncountable | uncountable | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative | prestige | prestigen | ||
| genitive | prestiges | prestigens | ||