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prestige - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)

• 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.
  • ✤ But in such an instance a false belief will appear with all the prestige of the latest scientific knowledge supporting it.¹
• (obsolete, often preceded by the) 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!²
• (uncountable, video games) 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.”³
  • ✤ When Season 1 starts, so does prestige for anyone who has reached level 55.⁴
  • ✤ There’s new Omnimovement, changes to progression and prestige, the option to share your best weapon builds.⁵
• (countable, video games) 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
  • ✤ While prestiges are “a completely optional part of progression,” Kinetic is hoping to provide some more incentive for players to make use of the feature. For instance, we’ll be able to get prestige -related cosmetics for player models, some free XP, or extra in-game cash to buy equipment with.⁷
  • ✤ With dozens of custom enchantments, unique prestiges, and a player-driven economy, ManaCube offers a rich and immersive Prison experience.⁸

Adjective

prestige (not comparable)

• (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) 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.⁹
  • ✤ The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or[om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form.¹⁰

Verb

prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)

• (intransitive, video games) 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?¹¹
  • ✤ I’m going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I’ve prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.¹²
  • ✤ However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.¹³
  • ✤ Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.¹⁴
  • ✤ * Prestiging * itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.¹⁵
• (transitive, video games) 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.¹⁶
  • ✤ Once you have managed to complete your registry, you are able to prestige it, which simply means that the registry will be reset, and the figures or stickers will go to zero, which allows you to go an return the foundables once more.¹⁷
  • ✤ Get through 50 levels of the Bloodweb to prestige your character.¹⁸

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹɛsˈtiːʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːʒ/
• IPA: (obsolete)/ˈpɹɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -iːʒ, -iːdʒ

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Footnotes

1. 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 425: ↩

2. 1811, William Warburton, edited by Richard Hurd, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, →OCLC, page 121: ↩

3. 2017 May 19, Jim Squires, “SPACEPLAN Review: Of Satellites and Potatoes”, in Gamezebo ‎${}^{[1]}$, Walnut Creek, Calif.: iWin, archived from the original on 29 August 2022: ↩

4. 2023 November 15, Ford James, “How to prestige in Modern Warfare 3”, in GamesRadar+ ‎${}^{[2]}$, London: Future plc, archived from the original on 15 November 2023: ↩

5. 2025 August 27, Danielle Rose, “Call of Duty Black Ops 7 release date, trailers, story, and latest news”, in PCGamesN ‎${}^{[3]}$, Bath, Somerset: NetworkN, archived from the original on 22 September 2025: ↩

6. 2019 August 21, Charles Burgar, “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Prestige System Explained”, in TheGamer ‎${}^{[4]}$, Montreal, Que.: Valnet, archived from the original on 12 December 2023: ↩

7. 2024 January 17, Anna Koselke, “Forget Lethal Company, another 10/10 co-op horror is getting an update”, in PCGamesN ‎${}^{[5]}$, Bath, Somerset: NetworkN, archived from the original on 17 January 2024: ↩

8. 2025 February 2, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft Prison servers in 2025”, in Sportskeeda ‎${}^{[6]}$, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Nazara Technologies, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 March 2025: ↩

9. 1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: ↩

10. 1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, →OCLC, page 57: ↩

11. 2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet): ↩

12. 2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet): ↩

13. 2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154: ↩

14. 2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet): ↩

15. 2018, Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420: ↩

16. 2019 August 1, Ford James, “How to prestige missions in Fortnite”, in GamesRadar+ ‎${}^{[7]}$, London: Future plc, archived from the original on 2 August 2019: ↩

17. 2019 August 21, Matthew Wilkinson, “10 Ways To Get XP Quickly In Harry Potter: Wizards Unite”, in TheGamer ‎${}^{[8]}$, Montreal, Que.: Valnet, archived from the original on 22 August 2019: ↩

18. 2023 March 31, Danielle Rose, “All Dead by Daylight codes list April 2023”, in PCGamesN ‎${}^{[9]}$, Bath, Somerset: NetworkN, archived from the original on 31 March 2023: ↩

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