cachet

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
“
"High School Musical" and "Spider-Man" 1-3 aside, digits have lost their title cachet, and titles have become indistinguishable brand names.

View all »
Definitions (23)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. noun A mark or quality, as of distinction, individuality, or authenticity: "Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack” (Christian Science Monitor).
  2. noun A seal on a document, such as a letter.
  3. noun A commemorative design stamped on an envelope to mark a postal or philatelic event.
2 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (14)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • "High School Musical" and "Spider-Man" 1-3 aside, digits have lost their title cachet, and titles have become indistinguishable brand names. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The question remains whether RIM can cash in on U2's rock star cachet, and whether BlackBerry can emerge as more than the consummate mobile business tool to capture the attention of a generation of potential customers who grew up on cellphones, MySpace and iTunes. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • A cachet is an envelope that depicts a theme, stamp and special cancel in honor of a specific event. —  News from www.nptelegraph.com
  • A constant challenge for English majors whose cachet is the honing of their sense and sensibility for the intricacies of the human condition has always been the world's increasing specialization.
  • Tina Fey's cultural cachet, true Fey nerds can have their thirst quenched by only one thing: new Ryan Reynolds hit the fundraising circuit running - literally - in an essay today on The Huffington Post, where he opened up about his training for next month's New York Marathon. —  Gawker
More examples »
 

Tags

cachet hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 76 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from Old French, from cacher, to press; see cache.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from cacher, hide: see cache, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/kæˈʃeɪ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

distressed · operator · clearance · fleeting · mediation

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket