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prestige
1. n. The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
Oxford has a university of very high prestige.
2. n. (obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
3. adj. (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.

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There is a lot of prestige involved.

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