adj
Meaning 1
Of high prestige.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She has a prestigious job with an international organization.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prestigious
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/
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UK: /pɹə-/
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US: /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
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US: /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/
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US: /pɹə-/
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rhymes with -ɪdʒəs
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rhymes with -iːdʒəs
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CMU ARPABET: P R EH0 S T IH1 JH AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a prestigious professor at a prestigious university
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
having an illustrious reputation; respected
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- our esteemed leader
- a prestigious author
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: esteemed, honored
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ذُو مَقَام (ḏū maqām) — of high prestige
- Aragonese: prestichioso — of high prestige
- Belarusian: прэсты́жны (prestýžny) — of high prestige
- Bulgarian: престижен (prestižen) — of high prestige
- Catalan: prestigiós — of high prestige
- Chinese Mandarin: 久负盛名 (jiǔfùshèngmíng) — of high prestige
- Chinese Mandarin: 享有声望的 — of high prestige
- Chinese Mandarin: 顯赫 /显赫 (xiǎnhè) — of high prestige
- Czech: prestižní — of high prestige
- Dutch: prestigieus — of high prestige
- Esperanto: prestiĝa — of high prestige
- Finnish: maineikas — of high prestige
- Finnish: arvovaltainen — of high prestige
- French: prestigieux — of high prestige
- Galician: prestixioso — of high prestige
- German: hoch angesehen — of high prestige
- German: prestigeträchtig — of high prestige
- German: repräsentativ — of high prestige
- German: herrschaftlich — of high prestige
- Ido: prestijo — of high prestige
- Indonesian: prestisius — of high prestige
- Interlingua: prestigiose — of high prestige
- Italian: prestigioso — of high prestige
- Malay: berprestij — of high prestige
- Polish: prestiżowy — of high prestige
- Portuguese: prestigioso — of high prestige
- Russian: прести́жный (prestížnyj) — of high prestige
- Spanish: prestigioso — of high prestige
- Swedish: prestigefull — of high prestige
- Swedish: prestigefylld — of high prestige
- Ukrainian: прести́жний (prestýžnyj) — of high prestige
- Volapük: prästigik — of high prestige
- Volapük: leprästigik — of high prestige
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