high standing or esteem in the eyes of others, based on achievement or success
an aura of glamour and desirability resulting from associations of social rank or material success
(used before a noun) supposedly conferring or indicative of prestige
a prestige executive suite
prestigious adj
early French prestige conjuror's trick, illusion, from late Latin praestigium, irreg from Latin praestringere to tie up, blindfold, from prae- + stringere to bind tight. The early meaning, ‘conjuror's trick’ or ‘illusion’, gradually gave way to the sense ‘glamour’ in the early 19th cent., a sense it had earlier acquired in French (indeed, its importation into English may have come specifically from its application to Napoleon). ‘Glamour’ has since been interpreted more narrowly in the sense of social standing or wealth