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prefab

prefab adjective: prefabricated.

Adjective

prefab (not comparable)

  1. Prefabricated.

Noun

prefab (plural prefabs)

  1. A prefabricated building.
    • Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41
  2. A prefabricated section of a building.
  3. (UK) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
  4. A reusable object in a video game world.

Verb

prefab (third-person singular simple present prefabs, present participle prefabbing, simple past and past participle prefabbed)

  1. (transitive) To prefabricate.

prefab meaning in Tamil

prefab in Tamil

முன்னிணைவு வீடு

Forms of prefab

Adjective
alternative formpre-fab
Noun
pluralprefabs
Verb
third-person singular presentprefabs
present participleprefabbing
past participleprefabbed
pastprefabbed

Origin of prefab

A clipping.

Words formed from prefab

Questions about prefab

What does prefab mean?
Prefab means prefabricated.
What is prefab in Tamil?
Prefab in Tamil is முன்னிணைவு வீடு. See Prefab meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prefab?
Prefab can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near prefab in the dictionary

  1. preextracted
  2. preextraction
  3. preextractions
  4. pref
  5. pref.
  6. prefab
  7. prefabbed
  8. prefabber
  9. prefabbers
  10. prefabbing
  11. prefabricate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prefab (page history and authors); prefab (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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