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prefabs

prefabs is the plural of prefab.

prefabs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prefab.

Meaning of prefab

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.

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Questions about prefabs

What is prefabs the plural of?
Prefabs is the plural of prefab.

Words near prefabs in the dictionary

  1. prefabricating
  2. prefabrication
  3. prefabrications
  4. prefabricator
  5. prefabricators
  6. prefabs
  7. preface
  8. prefaced
  9. prefaceless
  10. prefacer
  11. prefacers

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