prestigious

English

Alternative forms

• præstigious (archaic)

Etymology

Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛˈstɪdʒ.əs/, /pɹɛˈstiːdʒəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʒəs, Rhymes: -iːdʒəs

Adjective

prestigious (comparative more prestigious, superlative most prestigious)

1. Of high prestige.

   She has a prestigious job with an international organization.

Usage notes

• Objects: award, prize, job, address, school, university, college, club, journal, firm, institution, office, etc.

Translations

of high prestige

• Arabic: ذُو مَقَام (ḏū maqām)
• Aragonese: prestichioso
• Belarusian: прэсты́жны (prestýžny)
• Catalan: prestigiós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 久负盛名 (zh) (jiǔfùshèngmíng), 享有声望的

• Czech: prestižní
• Dutch: prestigieus (nl)
• Esperanto: prestiĝa
• Finnish: maineikas (fi), arvovaltainen (fi)
• French: prestigieux (fr)
• Galician: prestixioso
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: hoch angesehen, prestigeträchtig (de), repräsentativ (de), herrschaftlich
• Ido: prestijo (io)
• Indonesian: prestisius (id)
• Interlingua: prestigiose
• Italian: prestigioso (it)
• Polish: prestiżowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: prestigioso
• Russian: прести́жный (ru) (prestížnyj)
• Spanish: prestigioso m
• Swedish: prestigefull, prestigefylld
• Ukrainian: прести́жний (prestýžnyj)
• Volapük: prästigik, leprästigik

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prestigious”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.