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Definition of Prefecture

1. Noun. The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire).

Definition of Prefecture

1. n. The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

Definition of Prefecture

1. Noun. A office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; the official residence of that prefect. ¹

2. Noun. A district governed by a prefect (especially in France and Japan) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prefecture

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefecture

Literary usage of Prefecture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The apostolic prefecture of Guinea, in the south, was established in 1897. ... The prefecture of the Gold Coast has been for a long time a successful ..."

2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"prefecture In the new system Italy and Rome herself were in no way privileged ... The Italian prefecture took in Italy itself and the lands which might be ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The prefecture of the East is that one among the CHAP. four which least answers ... The four dioceses into which the prefecture was divided formed far more ..."

4. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The four dioceses into which the prefecture ^ . was divided formed far more natural divisions than the prefecture itself. Three of these were Asiatic. ..."

5. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The four dioceses into which the prefecture was divided formed far more natural divisions than the prefecture itself. Three of these were Asiatic. ..."

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