word-vault/dist/data/cards/pr/prestigious.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "prestigious",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "respected and admired as very important or of very high quality",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **prestigious award**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **highly prestigious** university"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My parents wanted me to go to a more prestigious university."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the city’s most prestigious and exclusive hotel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious events in the racing calendar."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/preˈstɪdʒəs/",
                "audio": "pr/prestigious/prestigious__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/preˈstiːdʒəs/",
                "audio": "pr/prestigious/prestigious__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘practising conjuring tricks’): from late Latin praestigiosus, from praestigiae ‘conjuring tricks’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent."
}