cachet
noun/ˈkæʃeɪ/
/kæˈʃeɪ/
[uncountable, singular] (formal)- if something has cachet, it has a special quality that people admire and approve of synonym prestige
- No other brand name has quite the same cachet.
- the cachet of the elegant Right Bank hotel
Extra Examples- Supporting the arts confers social cachet.
- The university didn't have the cachet of Oxford or Cambridge, but it had a strong research base.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, from cacher in the sense ‘to press’, based on Latin coactare ‘constrain’.
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