Prestige vs Achievement - What's the difference?
prestige | achievement | Related terms |
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
* :
The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=
, title=Well-connected Brains
, volume=100, issue=2, page=171
, magazine=(American Scientist)
A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness
* [The exploits] of the ancient saints do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - (Isaac Barrow)
* The highest achievements of the human intellect. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
Prestige is a related term of achievement.
As nouns the difference between prestige and achievement
is that prestige is while achievement is the act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.prestige
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .
Derived terms
* covert prestige * overt prestige * prestigiousExternal links
* * * ----achievement
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement .}}
citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}