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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- præstige (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹɛsˈtiːʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːʒ/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːʒ, -iːdʒ
Noun
[edit]prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)
- 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.
- (obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick.
- 1811, William Warburton, edited by Richard Hurd, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, →OCLC, page 121:
- 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!
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Malay: prestij
Translations
[edit]dignity, status, or esteem
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See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]prestige (not comparable)
- (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
- 1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 48:
- Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time.
- 1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, →OCLC, page 57:
- The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form.
Verb
[edit]prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)
- (video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
- 2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):
- This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?
- 2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
- I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.
- 2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154:
- However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.
- 2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
- Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.
- 2018, Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420:
- Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “prestige”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prestige”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “prestige”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestīgium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]prestige n (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: prestise
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin praestīgium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]prestige m (plural prestiges)
- prestige
- de prestige ― prestigious
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “prestige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]prestige c
Declension
[edit]Declension of prestige | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | prestige | prestigen | — | — |
Genitive | prestiges | prestigens | — | — |
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