if something has cachet, it has a special quality that people admire and approve of synonym prestige威信;声望 No other brand name has quite the same cachet. 没有其他品牌有完全相同的声望。 the cachet of the elegant Right Bank hotel 优雅的右岸酒店的标志
Extra ExamplesSupporting the arts confers social cachet. 支持艺术会带来社会声望。 The university didn't have the cachet of Oxford or Cambridge, but it had a strong research base. 这所大学没有牛津或剑桥的声望,但它有强大的研究基础。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, from cacher in the sense ‘to press’, based on Latin coactare ‘constrain’.