Usually means: Administrative division, varies by country.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word prefecture:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefecture: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See prefectural as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The office or position of a prefect.
noun:  The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.

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