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Definition: Prestige |
PrestigeNoun1. A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prestige" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Etymology: Prestige \Pres"tige\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression praestigum delusion, illusion, praestigae deceptions, jugglers' tricks, probably from prae before the root of stinguere to extinguish, originally, to prick. See Stick, verb.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Prestige This word has a strangely metamorphosed meaning. The Latin præstig'iæ means juggling tricks, hence prestidigitateur' (French), one who juggles with his fingers. We use the word for that favourable impression which results from good antecedents. The history of the change is this: Juggling tricks were once considered a sort of enchantment; to enchant is to charm, and to charm is to win the heart. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Prestige was a single-hulled oil tanker,whose sinking in 2002 off the Spanish coast caused a very large oil spill.
Prestige guitars is an instrument maker based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Prestige was a oil tanker whose sinking in 2002 off the Spanish coast caused a huge oil spill. Thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than thousand beaches on the Spanish and French coast were polluted, and the local fishing industry has been devastated. It has become the largest envionmental disaster in Spain's history.
The Prestige was a Greek-operated, single-hulleded tanker flying a Bahamas flag, had a Liberian owner, and had been chartered by a Swiss-based Russian oil company.
On November 13,2002, one of the ship's tanks burst during a storm off Galicia in northwestern Spain. 5,000 tons of fuel oil were spilled in the incident.
The Greek captain of the Prestige, Apostolos Mangouras, was taken into custody, accused of not co-operating with salvage crews and of harming the environment.
On 8.00 AM on November 19, the ship split in two.
The oil tanker was reported to be about 250 km from the Spanish coast at that time.
An earlier oil slick had already reached the coast.
The Spanish government decided to let the Prestige sink.
It claimed the leakage would not have a lasting effect on the environment.
After the sinking, however, the wreck continued leaking oil, some 125 tons of oil a day, which has polluted the sea bed and contaminated the coastline.
The affected area is not only a very important ecological region, supporting coral reefs and many species of sharks and birds, but it also supports the crucial fishing industry.
On December 10, the prime minister of Spain, José María Aznar, acknowledged that his government had made bad decisions. The ship would not have broken up and sunk if it had been towed to calm waters and the cargo could have been transferred, as the vessel's captain had requested.
The ownership of the Prestige is unclear, making it difficult to determine exactly who is responsible for the oil spill.
Initially, the government claimed just 17,000 tons of oil had been lost, and that the remaining
60,000 tons would freeze and not leak from the sunken tanker.
In early in 2003, it announced that half of the oil had been lost.
Now that figure has risen to about 63,000 tons.
But in August, 2003, Spanish government disclosed that the oil spill was far worse than previously claimed.
Environmentalists are now comparing the damage caused to that of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989.
More than eighty per cent of the tanker's 77,000 tons of fuel oil is now
thought to have been spilled off Spain's north-east coast.
Experts predict marine life will suffer pollution from the Prestige for at
least ten years due to the type of oil spilt, which contain light fractions
called polyaromatic-hydrocarbons. These toxic chemicals poison plankton,
fish eggs and crustaceans, leading to carcinogenic effects in fish and other
animals higher in the food chain.
The past months, engineers have been using robots to seal cracks in the
tanker's hull, now 4000 metres below the sea surface.
The oil leakage is now
reported to have slowed to a trickle of 20 liters a day.
By October 2004,
engineers hope to have removed the oil still in the tanker by drilling of small holes in the wreck, and pumping it out into bags,
250 tons at a time. These will be floated to the surface.
The total estimated cost of the operation will be US$100 million.
A recent report by the Galicia-based Barrie de la Maza economic institute
criticised the Spanish government's handling of the catastrophe. It
estimated the cost of the clean-up to the Galician coast alone at US$2.8
billion. The clean-up of the Exxon Valdez cost US$2 billion.
The government was also slated for its decision to tow the ailing wreck out
to sea — where it split in two — rather than into a port.
But Walmsley believes most of the blame lies with the ship's inspectors who allowed the
Prestige to sail. "It was reported as being substandard at one of the ports
it visited before Spain. The whole inspection regime needs to be revamped
and double-hulled tankers used instead," he says.
Since the disaster, oil tankers similar to the Prestige have been directed away from the French and Spanish coastlines.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The event
Aftermath
In the subsequent months, thousands of volunteers from Spain and other parts of Europe flocked to Galicia to help clean the coastline. The French prime minister promised &euro 50 million for cleanup.Quote
Reference
External link
Prestige (sociology)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prestige."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PRESTIGE | English | Prestige-Guidelines in healthcare | Computing, Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PrestigeSynonym: prestigiousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Noun: authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right; (title); direction; government; a. |
Desire | Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse. |
Misjudgment | Esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige. |
Repute | Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prestige |
| English words defined with "prestige": aggrandisement, aggrandizement ♦ constituted ♦ elevation, established ♦ face saver, face saving, face-saving, Frederick II, Frederick the Great ♦ George IV, grande dame ♦ influence, intact ♦ nonstandard ♦ prestigious ♦ Victorian age. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prestige": Come Down a Peg ♦ Digital Equipment Corporation. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prestige": Prestigiation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prestige" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (glamor, glamour, prestige), French (glamour, look, look at, prestige, reputation, status), German (kudos, prestige), Swedish (prestige). |
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Screenplays | That'll add a lot to my prestige, won't it? (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) | |
Lyrics | For Those Who Have Prestige (Dirty Diana; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Prestige (1932) Social Prestige (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Her crowning prestige. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Join the Navy; America's new prestige in world affairs will mean a greater Navy. Be a part of it. America advances / Herbert Paus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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John F. Kennedy. | War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To him Monsieur Madeleine had preserved all his prestige. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | They use the latest and finest building products to create an image of comfort and prestige. (references) | |
In subsequent years, however, business and prestige of domestic German agencies improved considerably. (references) | ||
Although these professionals are paid virtual blue-collar wages, there is social prestige in becoming a doctor. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | For example, in September 2000 the Haiphong Agricultural Materials and Transport Company sued the Hanoi newspaper Capital Youth for harming its prestige with a series of investigative articles about the company's operations. (references) |
Economic History | Madagascar | In 1947, with French prestige at low ebb, a nationalist uprising was suppressed only after several months of bitter fighting. (references) |
Syria | It came under Muslim rule in A.D. 636. Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak, and it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | This was followed by the removal of Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, an act that damaged the prestige and independence of the judiciary. (references) |
Trade | Russia | State Owned Banks: Some state financial institutions are taking on the role of commercial banks and project an image of stability and prestige. (references) |
Poland | Some U.S. companies have found that using the English language somewhere on the packaging (e.g. product name, promotional slogan) helps give the product additional prestige or value in the eyes of the Polish consumer. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Well, you know, someone said that the prestige of Monaco cannot be equated to its size or its size cannot explain the aura it has around the world. And I think that's very true. |
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| "Prestige" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.93% of the time. "Prestige" is used about 790 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.93% | 742 | 9,161 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.29% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.15% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.63% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 790 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Prestige Properties Holdings Limited | Thailand | Textile Prestige Public Company Limited |
| USA | Prestige Bancorp, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "prestige": policy of prestige ♦ prestige word. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prestige": prestige-based, prestige-car. | |
Ending with "prestige": high-prestige. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | gesag (authority, glamor, glamour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prestigj, i cilësisë së lartë (extra, first class, prestigious, super), autoritet (arm, authorities, authority, jurisdiction, power, pundit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هيبة (status), نفوذ (authority, clout, in, influence, leverage, potency, power, purchase, reign, standing, tutelage, weight, weightiness), وهم (bubble, delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, phantom, purport, vagary, vapor, vapour), حظوة (popularity), تأثير (action, affection, effect, effectiveness, hold, impact, impress, leverage, lobbying, puissance, pull, tutelage, virtue), سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), إحترام (consideration, courtesy, deference, esteem, estimation, homage, honor, honour, obeisance, regard, reputability, respect, respects, reverence), إعتبار (account, consideration, esteem, estimation, horn, regard, respect, stature, status, thoughtfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | влияние (action, coloring, colouring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus, sway), престиж (luster, lustre), добро име (honor, honour), допринасящ за престижа (prestigious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 声望 (Esteem, repute), 威望 , 威 (might, power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | proslulost (celebrity, distinction, eminence, renown), prestiž (face, kudos, reputation, status). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prestige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prestige (glamor, glamour), gezag (authority, glamor, glamour), autoriteit (authority, glamor, glamour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | prestiĝo (glamor, glamour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نفوذ (Authority, Dominance, Force, Hank, Importance, Infiltration, Influence, Influx, Osmosis, Prevalence, Seepage), قدرومنزلت , حیثیت , اعتبار (Authenticity, Authority, Credibility, Credit, Esteem, Estimate, Importance, Influence, Reliability, Reputation, Trust), ابرو (Brow, Credit, Honor, Name, Reputation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | arvo (consequence, degree, dignity, esteem, importance, rank, regard, title, value, worth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prestige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prestige (kudos). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γόητρο (image). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יוקר". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | presztízs (cachet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | martabat (dignity, grade, rank, status, value), gengsi (esteem, put on airs, respect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prestigio (glamor, glamour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 名誉 (credit, honor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいめ" (appearances, dignity, honour, interview, meeting, reputation), プレステージ , いめい (alias, another name, disobedience, dying instructions, fame, nickname, will), めいよ (credit, honor), め"ぼく (credit, dignity, face, honour, reputation), め"もく (credit, dignity, face, honour, reputation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 명성 (Fame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooashley (adoration, devotion, distinction, excellence, high-born, magnificent, rank, worship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estigepray prestígio (glamor, glamour). (various references) prestigiu, vazã (authority, bowl, esteem, flower vase, note, vase). (various references) престиж (save one's face). (various references) prestiž (status). (various references) prestigio (face, kudos, status). (various references) prestige, anseende (appearance, aspect, authority, credit, distinction, eclat, esteem, fame, look, reputation, repute, respect, sight, view). (various references) prestij (cachet, clout), saygınlık (cachet, credit, esteem, grace, honor, honour, importance, notability, note, odor, odour, reputability, repute, respectability, standing, venerability), nüfuz (authority, clout, diffusion, dominance, domination, force, hold, influence, interest, moment, penetration, pull, purchase, wire), itibar (altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, authority, consideration, credit, dignity, effectiveness, eminence, eminency, esteem, estimation, face, importance, odor, odour, regard, reputation, respectability, standing, weight), ün (bays, celebrity, distinction, fame, glory, kudos, laurels, name, prominence, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute). (various references) престиж. (various references) uy tín (charism), thanh thế. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dignitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prestige": prestigeful, prestiges. (additional references) | |
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"Prestige" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pershti, presige, presitge, presitige, prestage, prestiege, prestig, prestiges, prestile, prestine, prestinge, pretie, pretige, pristinge, prostyle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pestier, respite. | |
-2 letters: egrets, esprit, greets, gripes, pester, peters, preset, priest, repegs, resite, reties, ripest, sprite, stripe, tigers, tripes. | |
-3 letters: egers, egest, egret, ester, geest, geste, girts, grees, greet, gripe, grips, gript, grist, grits, peers, peise, peris, perse, peter, piers, piste, prees, prese, prest, pries, prigs, prise, reest, reges, repeg, reset, retie, ripes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pestering, predigest, prestiges. | |
+2 letters: predigests, presenting, presetting, pretesting, respecting, sceptering. | |
+3 letters: arpeggiates, greasepaint, guttersnipe, impregnates, pageantries, persecuting, petrologies, poltergeist, predigested, preexisting, preregister, prestigeful, stringpiece, superegoist. | |
+4 letters: bespattering, copresenting, distempering, enterprising, exasperating, greasepaints, guttersnipes, overstepping, paperweights, peregrinates, petrogenesis, pettifoggers, poltergeists, predesignate, predestining, predigesting, predigestion, preregisters, prerogatives, preselecting, prestressing, redepositing, reinspecting, replastering, representing, stereotyping, stringpieces, superegoists, superheating, telegraphies, telegraphist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 73 74 69 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ... - .. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e s t i g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0073 0074 0069 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718586757371 |
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