Status vs. Prestige
Difference Between Status and Prestige
Statusnoun
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.Prestigenoun
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.Statusnoun
Prestige or high standing.
Prestigenoun
Delusion; illusion; trick.
Statusnoun
A situation or state of affairs.
What's the status of the investigation?New York is known for its status as a financial center.Prestigeadjective
Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
Statusnoun
(legal) The legal condition of a person or thing.
Prestigenoun
a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.;
he wanted to achieve power and prestigeStatusnoun
The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.
He is a status Indian.Statusnoun
(social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".Statusnoun
(medicine) Short for status asthmaticus.}}
Statusnoun
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
he had the status of a minorthe novel attained the status of a classicatheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American lifeStatusnoun
a state at a particular time;
a condition (or state) of disrepairthe current status of the arms negotiations
