Usually means: Official overseeing certain administrative functions.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prefect: Merriam-Webster
  3. prefect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prefect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prefect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prefect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prefect, prefect: Wordnik
  8. prefect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prefect: Wiktionary
  10. prefect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prefect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prefect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prefect, prefect: Dictionary.com
  14. prefect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Prefect (France), Prefect (disambiguation), Prefect, The Prefect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prefect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prefect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prefect: Rhymezone
  19. prefect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prefect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prefect: FreeDictionary.org
  22. prefect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prefect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Prefect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
noun:  The head of a department in France.
noun:  The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
noun:  The head of a prefecture in Japan.
noun:  (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
noun:  A commander.

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