Prestige refers to a good

reputation The reputation of a social entity (a person, a social group, an organization, or a place) is an opinion about that entity typically as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria, such as behavior or performance. Reputation is a ubiquitous ...

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

Music

Prestige Records Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz music ...

, 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 Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...

, typically a showy flourish (17th c.) *''

The Prestige ''The Prestige'' is a 1995 fantasy novel by British writer Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. It is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of ...

'', 1995 novel by Christopher Priest

Brands and enterprises

Prestige (beer) Prestige is a lager brewed by Brasserie Nationale d'Haïti (BRANA) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is widely consumed and is the best-selling beer in Haiti with a 98% market share. Prestige beer is available in some parts of the United States and ...

, a Haitian lager * Citi Prestige, a premium

Citibank Citibank, N. A. (N. A. stands for " National Association") is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later became First National City ...

credit card *

Ibanez RG Prestige The Ibanez RG is a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki and one of the best-selling superstrat-style guitars ever made. The first model in the series, the RG550, was originally released in 1987 and advertised as part of the Roa ...

, a brand of guitars manufactured by Ibanez *

Plaxton Prestige The Plaxton Prestige is a low-floor single-decker bus body built by Plaxton at the Wigan, England factory of its Northern Counties subsidiary, and at its main Scarborough, North Yorkshire factory, during the latter half of the 1990s. The Prest ...

, a single-deck bus body built by Plaxton *

Prestige Brands Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. (formerly Prestige Brands, Inc.) is an American company that markets and distributes over-the-counter healthcare and household cleaning products. It was formed by the merger of Medtech Products, Inc., Prestige B ...

, an American manufacturer of personal care and home cleaning products * Prestige group, real estate developer in India *

TTK Prestige TTK Prestige Limited is an Indian company that manufactures kitchen appliances and cookware, under the "Prestige" and "Judge" brand. The company is best known for its pressure cookers. Company history TTK Prestige was incorporated as a private ...

, an Indian manufacturer of pressure cookers and other kitchen appliances.

Horse and greyhound races

Prestige (greyhounds) The Prestige is a former greyhound racing competition that was held annually at Hall Green Stadium in Birmingham, England, from 2003-2017. The event discontinued following the closure of Hall Green Stadium in July 2017. Past winners Venues and ...

, a greyhound racing competition * Prestige Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain *

Prestige Stakes The Prestige Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old fillies. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and it is scheduled to take place ...

, a thoroughbred horse race in Great Britain

People

George Leonard Prestige George Leonard Prestige (1889–1955) was Fellow and Chaplain of New College, Oxford. His theological research showed particular competence in patristics and touched on ancient philosophy, e.g., in ''God in Patristic Thought'' (1936). He is perh ...

(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 (1903 – after 1923) was an undefeated French Thoroughbred racehorse who won all his 16 races and became a successful sire. He was the dominant two-year-old in France in 1905, winning all seven of his races including the Omnium d ...

Prestige (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally consi ...

, esteem in which languages or dialects are held *

Prestige Elite Prestige Elite, also known simply as Prestige or Elite, is a monospaced typeface. It was created by Clayton Smith in 1953 for IBM. Along with Courier, it was extremely popular for use in electric typewriters, especially the IBM Selectric. Unlik ...

, typeface *

Prestige format American comic book tropes are common elements and literary devices related to American comic books. Continuity Comics continuity almost-always refers to the existence and use of a shared universe, although any comic can have internal contin ...

, 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 In evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, dual strategies theory states humans increase their status in social hierarchies using two major strategies known as dominance and prestige. * The first and oldest of the two strategies, ...

, prestige as one of the two strategies for gaining status in human social hierarchies