prestigious
adjective /preˈstɪdʒəs/
/preˈstiːdʒəs/
[usually before noun]- respected and admired as very important or of very high quality
- a prestigious award
- a highly prestigious university
- My parents wanted me to go to a more prestigious university.
- the city’s most prestigious and exclusive hotel
- The Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious events in the racing calendar.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘practising conjuring tricks’): from late Latin praestigiosus, from praestigiae ‘conjuring tricks’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.