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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: stage magicians in 1890s London

Music

  • Prestige Records, American jazz record label
  • Prestige (Daddy Yankee album), a 2012 album by Daddy Yankee
  • The Prestige (album)

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

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

See also

  • Select (disambiguation)
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