prestige

Meanings

Noun

• The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
• Delusion; illusion; trick.

Adjective

• Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.

Origin

• From French prestige ("illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige"), from Latin praestigium ("a delusion, an illusion"). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator and prestidigitation.