Prestige

/pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
2. (obsolete, often preceded by the) Delusion; illusion; trick.
3. (uncountable, video games) The act of starting over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
4. (countable, video games) A level, rank, or tier corresponding to prestige.
5. (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
6. (intransitive, video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
7. (transitive, video games) To start (something) over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.

Example Sentences

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!

Rather than relying on the genre-standard “prestige,” the act of resetting your progress to earn a larger modifier on your next attempt, SPACEPLAN resets its progress by sending you to a new planet so that it can both reset your progress and advance the narrative. […] Prestige can sometimes feel like a defeat; “I guess I’ve made it as far as I can, I’ll have to start over.”

When Season 1 starts, so does prestige for anyone who has reached level 55.

There's new Omnimovement, changes to progression and prestige, the option to share your best weapon builds.

This guide will explain how MW3's prestige system works, how to increase your prestige, and provide some tips on how to maximize your XP gains to speed up the prestige leveling process. […] Excluding the first rank, each prestige is made up of 50 levels, as shown below: […]

While prestiges are “a completely optional part of progression,” Kinetic is hoping to provide some more incentive for players to make use of the feature. For instance, we’ll be able to get prestige-related cosmetics for player models, some free XP, or extra in-game cash to buy equipment with.

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Word Forms

• prestiges
• præstige
• prestiging
• prestiged

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