if something has cachet, it has a special quality that people admire and approve of synonym prestige威信;聲望 No other brand name has quite the same cachet. 沒有其他品牌有完全相同的聲望。 the cachet of the elegant Right Bank hotel 優雅的右岸酒店的標志
Extra ExamplesSupporting the arts confers social cachet. 支持藝術會帶來社會聲望。 The university didn't have the cachet of Oxford or Cambridge, but it had a strong research base. 這所大學沒有牛津或劍橋的聲望,但它有強大的研究基礎。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, from cacher in the sense ‘to press’, based on Latin coactare ‘constrain’.