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'', 1995 novel by Christopher Priest

Brands and enterprises

* Prestige (beer), 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 Ba ...

credit card * Ibanez RG Prestige, a brand of guitars manufactured by Ibanez * Plaxton Prestige, 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 privat ...

, 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 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 plac ...

, 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 perhap ...

(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 de ...

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 cons ...

, 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 continui ...

, 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