Prestige
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Prestige refers to a good reputation or high esteem; in earlier usage, prestige meant "showiness". (19th c.)
Prestige may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Films
- Prestige (film), a 1932 American film directed by Tay Garnett: woman travels to French Indochina to meet up with husband
- The Prestige (film), a 2006 American thriller directed by Christopher Nolan
- Prestige picture, a film purposely created to lend a film studio the appearance of artistic integrity
Music
- Prestige Records, American jazz record label
- Prestige (album), a 2012 album by Daddy Yankee
- The Prestige (album), an album by Illdisposed
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Prestige (magazine), a Lebanese French-language women's fashion quarterly
- Prestige, the final portion of a magic trick, typically a showy flourish (17th c.)
- The Prestige, 1995 novel by Christopher Priest
Brands and enterprises
- Prestige (beer), a Haitian lager
- Citi Prestige, a premium Citibank credit card
- Ibanez RG Prestige, a brand of guitars manufactured by Ibanez
- Plaxton Prestige, a single-deck bus body built by Plaxton
- Prestige Brands, an American manufacturer of personal care and home cleaning products
- Prestige group, real estate developer in India
- TTK Prestige, an Indian manufacturer of pressure cookers and other kitchen appliances.
Horse and greyhound races
- Prestige (greyhounds), a greyhound racing competition
- Prestige Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain
- Prestige Stakes, a thoroughbred horse race in Great Britain
People
- George Leonard Prestige (1889-1955), English theologian
Ships
- Prestige (oil tanker), oil tanker
- MSC Prestige, a container ship
- USS Prestige, various American ships
Other uses
- Prestige (horse)
- Prestige (sociolinguistics), esteem in which languages or dialects are held
- Prestige Elite, typeface
- Prestige format, square-bound printing format for some comic books
- Prestige oil spill, caused by the oil tanker's sinking in Spanish waters in 2002
- Dual strategies theory, prestige as one of the two strategies for gaining status in human social hierarchies
See also
- Select (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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