Definitions
a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Oxford has a university of very high prestige.”
“But in such an instance a false belief will appear with all the prestige of the latest scientific knowledge supporting it.”
“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!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“High status”8 letters
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