prestige

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a high standing achieved through success, influence, or wealth

   The candidate wanted to attain the prestige of being elected.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

   Oxford has a university of very high prestige.

3. 3
   noun

   Delusion; illusion; trick.

   That faith which, we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable to the assaults of men and demons; to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture!

4. 4
   noun

   The act of starting over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.

   Rather than relying on the genre-standard “prestige,” the act of resetting your progress to earn a larger modifier on your next attempt, SPACEPLAN resets its progress by sending you to a new planet so that it can both reset your progress and advance the narrative. […] Prestige can sometimes feel like a defeat; “I guess I’ve made it as far as I can, I’ll have to start over.”

5. 5
   noun

   A level, rank, or tier corresponding to prestige.

   This guide will explain how MW3's prestige system works, how to increase your prestige, and provide some tips on how to maximize your XP gains to speed up the prestige leveling process. […] Excluding the first rank, each prestige is made up of 50 levels, as shown below: […]

6. 6
   adj

   Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.

   Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time.

7. 7
   verb

   To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.

   This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?

8. 8
   verb

   To start (something) over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.

   When you complete all seven of the challenges inside a specific mission, you'll have the opportunity to prestige the mission. Simply navigate to the specific mission you want to prestige and you'll be given the option when every challenge is complete.

Etymology

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.