prestigious

adj
/pɹɛˈstɪd͡ʒəs/UK/pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/US

Etymology

Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.

  1. borrowed from praestigiosus

Definitions

  1. Of high prestige.

    • She has a prestigious job with an international organization.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prestigious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prestigious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at prestigious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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