prestigious
/pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/US/pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
prestigious adjective: of high prestige.
Adjective
prestigious (comparative more prestigious, superlative most prestigious)
- Of high prestige.
- She has a prestigious job with an international organization.
prestigious meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
prestigious in Tamil
- மதிப்புமிக்க
prestigious in Marathi
- प्रतिष्ठित
prestigious in Urdu
- باوقار, مائشٹھیت
prestigious in Bengali
- সম্মানজনক, মর্যাদাপূর্ণ
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- prestigious in Telugu
- ప్రతిష్టాత్మకమైనది, ప్రతిష్టాత్మకమైన, ప్రతిష్టాత్మకమైనవి
- prestigious in Malayalam
- ബഹുമതിനേടിത്തരുന്ന, പ്രശസ്തമായ, പേരുകേട്ട, നല്ല മതിപ്പുള്ള
- prestigious in Kannada
- ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಿತ
- prestigious in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਤਿਸ਼ਠਾਵਾਨ
- prestigious in Nepali
- प्रतिष्ठित
- prestigious in Arabic
- ذُو مَقَام ḏū maqām
- prestigious in Malay
- berprestij
- prestigious in Indonesian
- prestisius
Examples of prestigious in a sentence
- The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.
- Being printed in an unrefereed journal isn't as prestigious as being published in a refereed academic journal.
- The high proportions of Asian students at prestigious universities feed into the stereotype of Asians putting a high value on education.
Forms of prestigious
| comparative | more prestigious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most prestigious |
| alternative form | præstigious |
Origin of prestigious
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.
Words formed from prestigious
Words that rhyme with prestigious
Questions about prestigious
- What does prestigious mean?
- Prestigious means of high prestige.
- What is prestigious in Tamil?
- Prestigious in Tamil is மதிப்புமிக்க. See Prestigious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is prestigious?
- Prestigious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce prestigious?
- Prestigious is pronounced /pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/ (UK).
Words near prestigious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prestigious (page history and authors); prestigious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prestigious (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prestigious (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prestigious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prestigious (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prestigious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); prestigious (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prestigious (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prestigious (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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