Synonyms:
prestige, prestigiousness
Meaning: a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige"
Usage examples
What's prestige, at best?"
Sensing their predicament and fearing any loss of prestige, they risked a slight advance.
The result of all this for the preacher, however, was a certain prestige, and his humility took alarm.
But the prestige I had gained among them, and the novelty of my expressed opinion carried much weight with them.
In the first place it was low; its devotees were wholly lacking in the graces of life, in prestige, and that ease which comes with assurance of power.
One of the officers tried to persuade me to shoot him, saying it would be a humane act, and at the same time give me the prestige of having killed a buffalo!
This particular reflection of mine proved unpopular with them, for it stabbed their vanity, and neither my prestige nor the novelty of the idea was sufficient salve.
Under a system where men might sell their own children without social reprobation or loss of prestige, it was not surprising that some of them should hate their distant cousins.
Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
The majority of them do not keep up their old unapproachable majesty, but become more and more democratized and even vulgarized, casting aside the external prestige that remained to them, and thereby destroying the very thing it was their function to maintain.