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prestige in English:

1. prestigious


the means to a highly prestigious home and equally exclusive home comforts are already in place
He’s the leader of a prestigious choir group.
I didn’t go to a prestigious law firm.
The car won some of the industry's most prestigious awards.
Harvard is one of the most prestigious universities in this country
Oxford is widely regarded as one of England’s most prestigious universities.
They won a prestigious business award.
prestigious university
The architect boasted that he had received a prestigious award.
In 1995, Andou received architecture's most prestigious award.
The ingenious man received the prestigious award for the first time.
He associates only with prestigious people.

English word "prestige"(prestigious) occurs in sets:

making nouns from adjectives
making nouns from adjectives

2. power


Power brings corruption.
Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Keeping Mario in a state in which he can throw fireballs is a delicate process; that newfound power sometimes makes one cocky and careless.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Ursula and Chelsea are battling over the boy they both have a crush on. Judging from the blood and teeth everywhere, this seems to be more of a matter of power than love.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Zipang The Power Polack, a ferocious Polish berserker, flailed around wildly, charging into enemy ranks crazily without armor.
Shurrup! Don't make such a fuss over a little headache. I'm flat out of magical power - this is all your fault!
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.
In South Korea, the most powerful member of a family, usually the oldest living male, has the power to send members of his family to a psychiatric hospital as he sees fit.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

3. prestige


a prestige hotel
You know, for a man of renowned prestige and rang he has a remarkably poor taste.
Several universities in this country enjoy great prestige.
I tried to repair his damaged prestige.
It is often assumed that this success means wealth, prestige or fame.

4. pride


Losing injured their pride.
Pride goes before a fall.
My pride prevented me from borrowing money from him.
I was also impressed with the school's cleanliness and the students' pride in it.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
What do you have to lose by asking her out on a date? A little pride maybe?
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Our party finally had a candidate we could put forward with pride.
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.
Definition pride is a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction you get when you do something well
My country has surrendered a part of its identity, but it has done so with pride.
The Japanese pride themselves on Mt. Fuji, a cone-shaped mountain.
You should have come here sooner instead of putting it off out of pride for so long.
If, between pride and love, one chooses pride, can it then have been love?