prestigenoun/pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/

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  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.
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  obsoleteDelusion; 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!
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  video-gamesThe 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.”
  • When Season 1 starts, so does prestige for anyone who has reached level 55.
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  video-gamesA 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: […]
  • 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.

prestigeadj/pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/

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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesRegarded 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.
  • The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form.

prestigeverb/pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/

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  video-gamesTo 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?
  • 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.
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  video-gamesTo 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.
  • 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.