prestigen.

Brit.

/prɛˈstiː(d)ʒ/, U.S.

/prɛˈsti(d)ʒ/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prestige; Latin praestīgia.

Etymology: < French prestige illusion (1372 in Middle French denoting an illusion produced by magic, 1688 denoting an illusion produced by natural means; now rare), attractive quality of people or things which inspires respect and admiration (c1750; compare earlier use denoting the favourable impression made by works of literature (c1650; now obsolete)) and its etymon classical Latin praestīgia trick, deceit, illusion (usually in plural, praestīgiae ), in post-classical Latin also reputation, popular esteem (a1536 in Erasmus as praestigium ) < (with loss of -r- ) praestrīgia < praestringere to bind tightly (see perstringe v.; compare praestringere oculōs to blindfold, hence, to dazzle the eyes) + -ia -ia suffix¹. Compare Spanish prestigio (early 15th cent. in sense 1 (now rare), 1708 in sense ‘marvel’, 1742 in sense 2), Portuguese prestigio (1688 in sense 1; now chiefly in sense 2), Italian prestigio (first half of the 14th cent. in sense 1 (now rare), 1821 in sense 2), all in sense 2 after French.With sense 2 compare the following earlier use of the French word in an English context:1816 W. Scott Paul's Lett. to Kinsfolk 80 He [sc. Napoleon] needed..the dazzling blaze of decisive victory to renew the charm, or prestige, as he himself was wont to call it, once attached to his name and fortunes. . N.E.D. (1908) also records a pronunciation with stress on the first syllable, ‘short’ i in the second, and the usual sound of ‘soft’ g: (pre·stidʒ) /ˈprɛstɪdʒ/. This appears to have been the earliest pronunciation. Thomas Sheridan Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1797) gives pres′-te-jez ‘illusions, juggling tricks’, probably meaning approximately /ˈprɛstɪdʒɪz/ and reflecting Johnson, who has the word only as a plural noun. Most 19th-century dictionaries give both first- and second-syllable-stress pronunciations (some with the final consonant /dʒ/ in both). All editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. give only the current pronunciation.

1. An illusion; a conjuring trick; a deception, an imposture. Frequently in plural. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of

braida1000

fraudc1374

mock1523

brogue1537

flim-flamc1538

imposture1548

lie1560

cozening1576

smoke-hole1580

gullery1598

gull1600

cog1602

coggery1602

fraudulency1630

imposition1632

cheat1649

fourbery1650

prestige1656

sham1677

crimp1684

bite1711

humbug1750

swindle1778

hookum-snivey1781

shim-sham1797

gag1805

intake1808

racket1819

wooden nutmeg1822

sell1838

caper1851

skin game1879

Kaffir bargain1899

swizzle1913

swizz1915

put-on1919

ready-up1924

rort1926

jack-up1945

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Prestiges, deceits, impostures, delusions, cousening tricks.

1661 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 12 The Dittay does not condescend upon the Sorcery and prestiges whereby the Pannell did effectuat the particulars lybelled.

1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. IV. 2601 It has been said that he deceived the People with Prestiges.

1753 W. Warburton Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. I. v. 166 That faith..we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable..to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture!

1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. v. 98 Machines by which phantasmagoria and oracular prestiges were played off.

1988 M. L. Ricketts tr. M. Eliade Autobiogr. II. 43 Without realizing you are ‘under a spell’, you become a victim of that formidable, luciferic prestige.

2. Originally: impressive or overawing influence, glamour. Subsequently: influence or reputation derived from achievements, associations, or character, or (esp.) from past success; a person's standing in the estimation of others.In earlier use, and still when unmarked, implying a relatively high degree; later also qualified by high, low, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > prestige or charisma

magica1616

prestige1829

izzat1857

cachet1882

yichus1890

mystique1891

charism1930

X factor1930

prestigiousness1962

1829 Westm. Rev. Oct. 397 The pleasure of these people does not consist in acting upon their maxims of ton among themselves, but in the effect of them on the inferior world. Dissipate the prestige, and you deprive them of the delight.

1838 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 316 The prestige with which he [sc. Napoleon] overawed the world is..the effect of stage-trick.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 201 Such is the prestige of broad cloth.

1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 191 Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 216 The prestige of the gun with a savage is in his notion of its infallibility.

1859 C. Kingsley Misc. I. 11 She [sc. Elizabeth] comes to the throne with such a prestige as never sovereign came since the days when Isaiah sang his pæan over young Hezekiah's accession.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 66 Balliol..can set off a prestige of long standing against a deficiency in the stipend.

1898 Sir W. Harcourt in Daily News 9 May 8/6 What I understand by prestige is the consideration in which nations or individuals are held by their fellows.

1900 J. Conrad Let. Nov. (1956) 170 It seems to me you do not realize this extraordinary prestige you possess—the prestige of a quiescent bomb about whose deadly quality there is no doubt whatever.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 10 Magnanimity and mercy were the noblest attributes of man. In the exercise of these high qualities I could recover my prestige.

1937 R. K. Narayan Bachelor of Arts ix. 139 We have a status and a prestige to keep. We can't lower ourselves unduly.

1950 Foreign Affairs Apr. i. 14 The sober thinkers whose views enjoyed prestige among the serious public.

1998 G. Shortland Polygamy ii. 30 Did his prestige as a folk hero outweigh his shortcomings in the ethnic-purity stakes?

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

prestige principle n.

ΚΠ

1939 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 220 Concrete manifestations of the ‘prestige-principle’ at work.

1989 Economist (Nexis) 8 July 43 De Gaulle used this prestige principle to help France recover its self-confidence after defeat in the second world war.

prestige ranking n.

ΚΠ

1942 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 15 300 Will the prestige ranking of occupations be agreed upon by observers at different levels of the social scale?

1951 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 245 Their emphasis in prestige-ranking is apparently motivated by an interest in the conservative forces in modern society.

1991 European Sociol. Rev. 7 253/1 Results showing a large amount of consensus have been obtained through comparisons of the occupational prestige rankings established for different social strata.

prestige rating n.

ΚΠ

1942 Sociometry 5 411 It differs from the usual concept of prestige-rating, I.Q., income, educational background and other factors.

1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 532/3 The Revolution..reversed the prestige ratings of degrees.

prestige structure n.

ΚΠ

1949 R. K. Merton Patterns of Influence iv, in Lazarsfeld & Stanton Communications Res. ii. 198 He begins his climb in the prestige-structure at a relatively high level.

1998 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 63 353/1 A ‘family’ of theories..describing additional means by which power and prestige structures may develop.

prestige value n.

ΚΠ

1915 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 21 Oct. 8/4 The unprivileged have been unwilling that their children should see anything of good repute, anything with a prestige value, denied to them.

2002 Oxoniensia 66 143 The macehead from Eynsham was made of imported stone, brought in long distance from Cornwall, which would no doubt have added to its prestige value.

b. Objective.

prestige-bearing adj.

ΚΠ

1924 Jrnl. Social Forces 2 444/1 Man's instinctive motives: love and hate, selfishness and egocentricism, coupled with the tendency to follow prestige-bearing persons.

1994 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 45 184 This actually is not difficult to understand, for the sense of evidence seems to have been constantly reinforced by the prestige-bearing properties of the group.

prestige-building n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1918 Washington Post 4 July 10/8 (advt.) Developing those prestige-building qualities that have made the Hanan a peer among shoes.

1942 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. University Teachers of Insurance 9 94 Building up a clientele by sound means and handling his relations with policyholders on a dignified, prestige-building basis.

1964 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 7/1 A piece of national prestige-building and a boost to exports too.

1996 Jrnl. Interamer. Stud. & World Affairs 38 65 Changing the composition of fixed investment away from luxury housing and prestige-building public and private works.

prestige-conferring adj.

ΚΠ

1932 A. G. Keller Man's Rough Road xxv. 439 Since prestige-conferring competition is all-pervading and never-ending, the element of self-gratification has entered dynamically into every part of the societal structure.

1997 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 57 542 This suite of songs displays all the rhyme-clusters just mentioned, in an effort to evoke both the literary and the prestige-conferring qualities of the Da ya.

prestige-hunting adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1913 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 20 Nov. 6/2 It would be comforting to know that every citizen can be depended upon to take as much interest in every problem of city government as the prestige-hunting politician.

1930 M. Mead Growing up in New Guinea iii. 29 But this is neither child labour nor idle prestige hunting on the part of the parents.

1991 C. Paglia Junk Bonds & Corporate Raiders in Sex, Art, & Amer. Culture (1992) 236 Attendance at conferences..should be seen for what it is: prestige-hunting and long-range job-seeking junkets, meat-rack mini-vacations.

c. attributive with sense ‘that is a source of prestige’, as prestige object, prestige product, prestige word, etc.In some quots. passing into adjectival use.

ΚΠ

1914 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 31 Aug. 4/3 No progressive merchant can afford to overlook the locally well advertised, nationally known prestige product.

1949 L. P. Hartley Boat xi. 156 If only they could all put off their company manners and change into their old clothes! But no; this was a prestige occasion.

1949 Times 5 Sept. 5/4 It appears that the piano, once the principal prestige object..is being supplanted by the tiled fireplace, though Mr. Chapman does not mention the radiogram—or the television set.

1953 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 4 95/2 ‘Genetic’ seems used simply as a prestige word..and indeed there is no attempt at working out any genealogical classification.

1958 Observer 25 May 16/2 To-day ‘culture’ is being marketed as a prestige-product.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 22 But very often there is a marked difference in tone between the foreign and the native terms, the former being felt as prestige-word, the latter as the plain terms.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 37/2 (advt.) Accommodation available in Toronto's finest small nursing home, central prestige location, single or double occupancy.

1985 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 15 Aug. 46/2 Examples of Cameroon's distinctive wood carvings..are included, as well as memorial figures and prestige objects such as fly-whisks.

1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. vi. 227 At Téviec domestic cattle have been claimed..and one sheep or goat tooth is documented. Domesticates here quite clearly only had significance as exotic prestige valuables.

1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 74/3 The Startac [cell phone] was a fashion statement, and priced as a prestige product (about $2,000 a pop).

2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Jan. b7 Spirituality is a popular prestige word, and these surveys show the majority of Canadians think it is very important.

2005 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1Feb. 37 Transatlantic liners now acted as national prestige objects attracting state support from all countries joining the race to New York.

C2.

prestige advertising n. advertising with the principal aim of furthering the prestige of the advertiser (rather than increasing sales, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > to favour advertiser (not product)

prestige advertising1907

1907 Sioux Valley News (Correctionville, Iowa) 14 Mar. 1/3 Quality every time. Read my ads for Mandel Bros. and you will see that I am great on prestige advertising.

1959 Manch. Guardian 2 July 6/5 I doubt whether prestige advertising is important in recruiting university graduates.

1980 Hispanic Rev. 48 221 Through a prestige advertising of sorts, the poet affiliates himself with universal defenders of the brotherhood of man and the common destiny of mankind.

prestige-conscious adj. concerned by or acutely aware of personal prestige.

ΚΠ

1955 E. Mosbacher tr. H. Lüthy France against Herself ii. ii. 213 The prestige-conscious descendants of the ancien régime.

2005 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 July b8 Taiwan, where prestige-conscious consumers fight to pay $250 per 20-pound box of Grade A cherries the size of ping-pong balls.

prestige-marking adj. (of a linguistic form or usage) indicative of social prestige.

ΚΠ

1957 M. Joos Readings in Linguistics 376/2 The dialects and idiolects of higher prestige were more advanced in this direction [of phonetic drift], and their speakers carried the drift farther along so as to maintain the prestige-marking difference against their pursuers.

1982 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 45 248 They show a prestige-marking feature.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	prestige
释义	prestigen. Brit. /prɛˈstiː(d)ʒ/, U.S. /prɛˈsti(d)ʒ/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prestige; Latin praestīgia. Etymology: < French prestige illusion (1372 in Middle French denoting an illusion produced by magic, 1688 denoting an illusion produced by natural means; now rare), attractive quality of people or things which inspires respect and admiration (c1750; compare earlier use denoting the favourable impression made by works of literature (c1650; now obsolete)) and its etymon classical Latin praestīgia trick, deceit, illusion (usually in plural, praestīgiae ), in post-classical Latin also reputation, popular esteem (a1536 in Erasmus as praestigium ) < (with loss of -r- ) praestrīgia < praestringere to bind tightly (see perstringe v.; compare praestringere oculōs to blindfold, hence, to dazzle the eyes) + -ia -ia suffix¹. Compare Spanish prestigio (early 15th cent. in sense 1 (now rare), 1708 in sense ‘marvel’, 1742 in sense 2), Portuguese prestigio (1688 in sense 1; now chiefly in sense 2), Italian prestigio (first half of the 14th cent. in sense 1 (now rare), 1821 in sense 2), all in sense 2 after French.With sense 2 compare the following earlier use of the French word in an English context:1816 W. Scott Paul's Lett. to Kinsfolk 80 He [sc. Napoleon] needed..the dazzling blaze of decisive victory to renew the charm, or prestige, as he himself was wont to call it, once attached to his name and fortunes. . N.E.D. (1908) also records a pronunciation with stress on the first syllable, ‘short’ i in the second, and the usual sound of ‘soft’ g: (pre·stidʒ) /ˈprɛstɪdʒ/. This appears to have been the earliest pronunciation. Thomas Sheridan Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1797) gives pres′-te-jez ‘illusions, juggling tricks’, probably meaning approximately /ˈprɛstɪdʒɪz/ and reflecting Johnson, who has the word only as a plural noun. Most 19th-century dictionaries give both first- and second-syllable-stress pronunciations (some with the final consonant /dʒ/ in both). All editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. give only the current pronunciation. 1. An illusion; a conjuring trick; a deception, an imposture. Frequently in plural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of braida1000 fraudc1374 mock1523 brogue1537 flim-flamc1538 imposture1548 lie1560 cozening1576 smoke-hole1580 gullery1598 gull1600 cog1602 coggery1602 fraudulency1630 imposition1632 cheat1649 fourbery1650 prestige1656 sham1677 crimp1684 bite1711 humbug1750 swindle1778 hookum-snivey1781 shim-sham1797 gag1805 intake1808 racket1819 wooden nutmeg1822 sell1838 caper1851 skin game1879 Kaffir bargain1899 swizzle1913 swizz1915 put-on1919 ready-up1924 rort1926 jack-up1945 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Prestiges, deceits, impostures, delusions, cousening tricks. 1661 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 12 The Dittay does not condescend upon the Sorcery and prestiges whereby the Pannell did effectuat the particulars lybelled. 1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. IV. 2601 It has been said that he deceived the People with Prestiges. 1753 W. Warburton Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. I. v. 166 That faith..we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable..to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture! 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. v. 98 Machines by which phantasmagoria and oracular prestiges were played off. 1988 M. L. Ricketts tr. M. Eliade Autobiogr. II. 43 Without realizing you are ‘under a spell’, you become a victim of that formidable, luciferic prestige. 2. Originally: impressive or overawing influence, glamour. Subsequently: influence or reputation derived from achievements, associations, or character, or (esp.) from past success; a person's standing in the estimation of others.In earlier use, and still when unmarked, implying a relatively high degree; later also qualified by high, low, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > prestige or charisma magica1616 prestige1829 izzat1857 cachet1882 yichus1890 mystique1891 charism1930 X factor1930 prestigiousness1962 1829 Westm. Rev. Oct. 397 The pleasure of these people does not consist in acting upon their maxims of ton among themselves, but in the effect of them on the inferior world. Dissipate the prestige, and you deprive them of the delight. 1838 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 316 The prestige with which he [sc. Napoleon] overawed the world is..the effect of stage-trick. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 201 Such is the prestige of broad cloth. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 191 Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xviii. 216 The prestige of the gun with a savage is in his notion of its infallibility. 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. I. 11 She [sc. Elizabeth] comes to the throne with such a prestige as never sovereign came since the days when Isaiah sang his pæan over young Hezekiah's accession. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 66 Balliol..can set off a prestige of long standing against a deficiency in the stipend. 1898 Sir W. Harcourt in Daily News 9 May 8/6 What I understand by prestige is the consideration in which nations or individuals are held by their fellows. 1900 J. Conrad Let. Nov. (1956) 170 It seems to me you do not realize this extraordinary prestige you possess—the prestige of a quiescent bomb about whose deadly quality there is no doubt whatever. 1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 10 Magnanimity and mercy were the noblest attributes of man. In the exercise of these high qualities I could recover my prestige. 1937 R. K. Narayan Bachelor of Arts ix. 139 We have a status and a prestige to keep. We can't lower ourselves unduly. 1950 Foreign Affairs Apr. i. 14 The sober thinkers whose views enjoyed prestige among the serious public. 1998 G. Shortland Polygamy ii. 30 Did his prestige as a folk hero outweigh his shortcomings in the ethnic-purity stakes? Compounds C1. a. General attributive. prestige principle n. ΚΠ 1939 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 220 Concrete manifestations of the ‘prestige-principle’ at work. 1989 Economist (Nexis) 8 July 43 De Gaulle used this prestige principle to help France recover its self-confidence after defeat in the second world war. prestige ranking n. ΚΠ 1942 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 15 300 Will the prestige ranking of occupations be agreed upon by observers at different levels of the social scale? 1951 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 245 Their emphasis in prestige-ranking is apparently motivated by an interest in the conservative forces in modern society. 1991 European Sociol. Rev. 7 253/1 Results showing a large amount of consensus have been obtained through comparisons of the occupational prestige rankings established for different social strata. prestige rating n. ΚΠ 1942 Sociometry 5 411 It differs from the usual concept of prestige-rating, I.Q., income, educational background and other factors. 1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 532/3 The Revolution..reversed the prestige ratings of degrees. prestige structure n. ΚΠ 1949 R. K. Merton Patterns of Influence iv, in Lazarsfeld & Stanton Communications Res. ii. 198 He begins his climb in the prestige-structure at a relatively high level. 1998 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 63 353/1 A ‘family’ of theories..describing additional means by which power and prestige structures may develop. prestige value n. ΚΠ 1915 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 21 Oct. 8/4 The unprivileged have been unwilling that their children should see anything of good repute, anything with a prestige value, denied to them. 2002 Oxoniensia 66 143 The macehead from Eynsham was made of imported stone, brought in long distance from Cornwall, which would no doubt have added to its prestige value. b. Objective. prestige-bearing adj. ΚΠ 1924 Jrnl. Social Forces 2 444/1 Man's instinctive motives: love and hate, selfishness and egocentricism, coupled with the tendency to follow prestige-bearing persons. 1994 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 45 184 This actually is not difficult to understand, for the sense of evidence seems to have been constantly reinforced by the prestige-bearing properties of the group. prestige-building n. and adj. ΚΠ 1918 Washington Post 4 July 10/8 (advt.) Developing those prestige-building qualities that have made the Hanan a peer among shoes. 1942 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. University Teachers of Insurance 9 94 Building up a clientele by sound means and handling his relations with policyholders on a dignified, prestige-building basis. 1964 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 7/1 A piece of national prestige-building and a boost to exports too. 1996 Jrnl. Interamer. Stud. & World Affairs 38 65 Changing the composition of fixed investment away from luxury housing and prestige-building public and private works. prestige-conferring adj. ΚΠ 1932 A. G. Keller Man's Rough Road xxv. 439 Since prestige-conferring competition is all-pervading and never-ending, the element of self-gratification has entered dynamically into every part of the societal structure. 1997 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 57 542 This suite of songs displays all the rhyme-clusters just mentioned, in an effort to evoke both the literary and the prestige-conferring qualities of the Da ya. prestige-hunting adj. and n. ΚΠ 1913 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 20 Nov. 6/2 It would be comforting to know that every citizen can be depended upon to take as much interest in every problem of city government as the prestige-hunting politician. 1930 M. Mead Growing up in New Guinea iii. 29 But this is neither child labour nor idle prestige hunting on the part of the parents. 1991 C. Paglia Junk Bonds & Corporate Raiders in Sex, Art, & Amer. Culture (1992) 236 Attendance at conferences..should be seen for what it is: prestige-hunting and long-range job-seeking junkets, meat-rack mini-vacations. c. attributive with sense ‘that is a source of prestige’, as prestige object, prestige product, prestige word, etc.In some quots. passing into adjectival use. ΚΠ 1914 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 31 Aug. 4/3 No progressive merchant can afford to overlook the locally well advertised, nationally known prestige product. 1949 L. P. Hartley Boat xi. 156 If only they could all put off their company manners and change into their old clothes! But no; this was a prestige occasion. 1949 Times 5 Sept. 5/4 It appears that the piano, once the principal prestige object..is being supplanted by the tiled fireplace, though Mr. Chapman does not mention the radiogram—or the television set. 1953 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 4 95/2 ‘Genetic’ seems used simply as a prestige word..and indeed there is no attempt at working out any genealogical classification. 1958 Observer 25 May 16/2 To-day ‘culture’ is being marketed as a prestige-product. 1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 22 But very often there is a marked difference in tone between the foreign and the native terms, the former being felt as prestige-word, the latter as the plain terms. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 37/2 (advt.) Accommodation available in Toronto's finest small nursing home, central prestige location, single or double occupancy. 1985 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 15 Aug. 46/2 Examples of Cameroon's distinctive wood carvings..are included, as well as memorial figures and prestige objects such as fly-whisks. 1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. vi. 227 At Téviec domestic cattle have been claimed..and one sheep or goat tooth is documented. Domesticates here quite clearly only had significance as exotic prestige valuables. 1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 74/3 The Startac [cell phone] was a fashion statement, and priced as a prestige product (about $2,000 a pop). 2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Jan. b7 Spirituality is a popular prestige word, and these surveys show the majority of Canadians think it is very important. 2005 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1Feb. 37 Transatlantic liners now acted as national prestige objects attracting state support from all countries joining the race to New York. C2. prestige advertising n. advertising with the principal aim of furthering the prestige of the advertiser (rather than increasing sales, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > to favour advertiser (not product) prestige advertising1907 1907 Sioux Valley News (Correctionville, Iowa) 14 Mar. 1/3 Quality every time. Read my ads for Mandel Bros. and you will see that I am great on prestige advertising. 1959 Manch. Guardian 2 July 6/5 I doubt whether prestige advertising is important in recruiting university graduates. 1980 Hispanic Rev. 48 221 Through a prestige advertising of sorts, the poet affiliates himself with universal defenders of the brotherhood of man and the common destiny of mankind. prestige-conscious adj. concerned by or acutely aware of personal prestige. ΚΠ 1955 E. Mosbacher tr. H. Lüthy France against Herself ii. ii. 213 The prestige-conscious descendants of the ancien régime. 2005 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 July b8 Taiwan, where prestige-conscious consumers fight to pay $250 per 20-pound box of Grade A cherries the size of ping-pong balls. prestige-marking adj. (of a linguistic form or usage) indicative of social prestige. ΚΠ 1957 M. Joos Readings in Linguistics 376/2 The dialects and idiolects of higher prestige were more advanced in this direction [of phonetic drift], and their speakers carried the drift farther along so as to maintain the prestige-marking difference against their pursuers. 1982 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 45 248 They show a prestige-marking feature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1656
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