Prestige Explained

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)