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præfecture

præfecture is the archaic form of prefecture.

Meaning of prefecture

Noun

prefecture (plural prefectures)

  1. The office or position of a prefect.
  2. The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.
    • The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation.
      Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of...2021 April 30, Tom Daly, “China graft watchdog probes governor of emerging aluminium hub”, in Richard Chang, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023, ALUMINUM
    Synonyms:
    jun, fu, chun, foo, commandery

Forms of præfecture

pluralpræfectures

Questions about præfecture

What is præfecture the archaic form of?
Præfecture is the archaic form of prefecture.

Words near præfecture in the dictionary

  1. præfaced
  2. præfaces
  3. præfacing
  4. præfatory
  5. præfect
  6. præfecture
  7. præfectures
  8. præfer
  9. præfer'd
  10. præferable
  11. præference

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præfecture (page history and authors); prefecture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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