Prefect

Definition: Prefect

Prefect

Noun

1. A chief officer or chief magistrate; "the prefect of Paris police".

Date "prefect" was first used: sometime around 1350. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Prefect

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deputy	Regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar; premier; (director); chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul; viceroy; (governor); commissioner; Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego.
Master	Mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon, provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor, seneschal, alderman, councilman, committeeman, councilwoman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer; (executive); dewan, fonctionnaire.
School	School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Prefect

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word prefect can refer to any of a number of types of official, including:

in Latin, praefectus: a high-ranking military or civil official in the Roman Empire
in the context of schools, a prefect is a pupil who has been given authority over other pupils in the school

France

A prefect (préfet) is the State's representative in a région (thus called préfet de région) or département. His agency is called the préfecture. Sub-prefects (sous-préfets, sous-préfecture) operate in the arrondissements under his responsability. The prefect of a région is also responsible for the département where his préfecture is seated, and the prefect of a département for the arrondissement where his préfecture is seated.

The prefects operate under the Minister of the Interior. Their main missions include.

representing the state before the local governments;
security
- coordination of police and gendarmerie forces;
- handling of major crises;
- emergency defense procedures;
handling of official documents, such as
- production of identity documents such as identity cards and passports;
- deliverance of driving licenses;
- application of immigration rules;
respect of legality: the services of the prefect control whether the decisions of local governments were legal and submit suspicious cases to administrative courts or financial auditing courts.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prefect."

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Crosswords: Prefect

English words defined with "prefect": Harmost ♦ Prefectorial, Prefectship, prefecture. (references)

Specialty definitions using "prefect": Hundred Days ♦ Pompey's Pillar. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Prefect" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (prefect, sheriff).

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Commercial Usage: Prefect

Domain	Title
Books	A Guide to the Papers of Pierre Clement Laussat: Napoleon's Prefect for the Colony of Louisiana and of General Claude Perrin Victor at the Historic N (reference) Prefect and emperor; the Relationes of Symmachus, A.D. 384 (reference) Proceedings of the Japan-U.S. Seminar on Focused Ion Beam Technology and Applications : 15-19 November 1987, Senri Hankyu Hotel, Osaka, and 20 November 1987, Shima Kanko Hotel, Mie Prefect, Japan (reference) The Prefect (reference) The prefect in French public administration (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Prefect

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Photo Album: Prefect

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Panoramic view of Notre Dame & Prefect of Police, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Prefect

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	On the waterways declared to be international in the preceding Article, the nationals, property and flags of all Powers shall be treated on a footing of prefect equality, no distinction being made to the detriment of the nationals, property or flag of any Power between them and the nationals, property or flag of the riparian State itself or of the most favoured nation. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Prefect

Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The mayor and the president made him the first visit, and he, on his part, paid like honour to the general and the prefect.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Prefect

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Chad	In November 2000, General Ali Abdallah, prefect of Logone Occidental province, sued Le Temps's Director of Publication, Michael Didama, over an article investigating Abdallah's role in a presidential assassination attempt. (references)
	Brunei	However, in 1998, the Government allowed the Catholic Church to establish the first apostolic prefecture in the country and to install a Bruneian of Chinese origin as the country's first apostolic prefect. (references)
	Mauritania	The law requires that all recognized political parties and NGO's apply to the local prefect for permission for large meetings or assemblies. (references)
Economic History	Romania	A prefect may block the action of a local authority if he deems it unlawful or unconstitutional. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	For administrative purposes, Cote d'Ivoire is divided into 18 regions, 58 departments, each headed by a prefect appointed by the central government. (references)
	France	Traditionally, decisionmaking in France has been highly centralized, with each of France's departments headed by a prefect appointed by the central government. (references)
Human Rights	Russia	On November 2, unknown persons fatally shot Sergey Balashov, Deputy Prefect of Moscow's Western Okrug, in charge of housing affairs, in front of the prefecture building. (references)
	Chad	Although the prefect conducted an investigation and could not establish the captains' involvement in the rebellion, they remained in detention at year's end. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	On July 15, after she was interviewed by the Prefect of Police of Abidjan and the deputy public prosecutor, Atsain was arrested and jailed at the Abidjan House of Arrest and Corrections (MACA); Sylla Mory also filed a lawsuit against Atsain. (references)
Political Rights	Togo	Administratively, the prefect, nominated by the Interior Minister, is the primary representative of the central government in each of the 30 prefecture. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Prefect

"Prefect" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.53% of the time. "Prefect" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.53%	67	40,952
Noun (proper)	1.47%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	68	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Prefect

Expressions using "prefect": Apostolic prefect ♦ prefect of Studies. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "prefect": prefect-apostolic.
	Ending with "prefect": pro-prefect, school-prefect, sub-prefect, vice-prefect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prefect

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
prefect	35
ford prefect	21
circle prefect	4
prefect word	4
greeting prefect	3
harry potter prefect	3
10 prefect	3
butt prefect	3
badge harry potter prefect	3
girl humor prefect	3
prefect system	2
badge prefect	2
ass prefect	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prefect

Language		Translations for "prefect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prefekt, kujdestar klase (monitor). (various references)

Arabic		‏مدير الشرطة (police chief), ‏عريف (question master), ‏طالب مسؤول, ‏الوالي, ‏الحاكم (governor, master, ruler). (various references)

Bulgarian		префект. (various references)

Czech		prefekt (monitor). (various references)

French		préfet de département (prefect of the department), préfet (prefet). (various references)

German		präfekt. (various references)

Greek		έπαρχοσ, νομάρχησ (governor), επιμελητήσ τάξεωσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מושל מחוז, תלמי�" אחראי. (various references)

Hungarian		prefektus, elöljáró (magistrate, premisory, preposition, principal, provost, superior). (various references)

Italian		prefetto. (various references)

Manx		meoir (agent of estate, bailiff, curator, custodian, ganger, keeper, manager, mayor, steward, supervisor, taskmaster). (various references)

Pig Latin		efectpray

Portuguese		prefeito (mayor), chefe de turma (monitor). (various references)

Romanian		prefect (sheriff), şeful casei. (various references)

Russian		префект. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prefekt. (various references)

Spanish		prefecto, monitor (display unit, instructor, monitor). (various references)

Swedish		ordningsman (monitor). (various references)

Turkish		yüksek rütbeli memur, vali (ban, chief magistrate, dey, exarch, governor, proconsul), sınıf başkanı. (various references)

Ukrainian		префект. (various references)

Welsh		rhaglaw (viceroy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Prefect

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	praefecti, praefectis, praefecto, praefectos, praefectum, praefectus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Prefect

Language	Date	Source	2 Chronicles Chapter 31, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eishnegkan ekei taV aparcaV kai ta epidekata en pistei kai ep' autwn epistathV cwneniaV o leuithV kai semei o adelfoV autou diadecomenoV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Intulerunt tam primitias quam decimas et quaecumque voverant fideliter fuit autem praefectus eorum Chonenias Levita et Semei frater eius secundus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And dymes, and what euer thingus thei hadden vowed feithfully. Forsothe the prefect of hem was Chonenyas, Leuyte; and Semeye, his brother, the secounde;
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And brought in the offerings and the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Prefect

Language	2 Chronicles Chapter 31, Verse 12
Cebuano	Ug ilang gidala ang mga butang nga hinalad ug ang mga bahin nga ikapulo ug ang mga pinahanungod nga mga butang sa pagkamatinumanon. Ug ibabaw kanila si Chonanias ang Levihanon maoy magbubuot, ug si Simei nga iyang igsoon nga lalake maoy ikaduha;
Croatian	poèeli su onamo unositi prinose, desetine i svetinje; nad tim je bio predstojnik levit Konanija i brat mu � imej, drugi do njega.
Danish	Så bragte man samvittighedsfuldt Offerydelsen, Tienden og Helliggaverne derind. Den øverste Opsynsmand derover var Leviten Konanja, den næstøverste hans Broder Sjim'i;
Dutch	Daarin brachten zij die heffing, en de tienden, en de geheiligde dingen, in getrouwigheid; en daarover was Chonanja, de Leviet, overste, en Simei, zijn broeder, de tweede.
Finnish	tuotiin niihin tunnollisesti anti, kymmenys ja pyhät lahjat. Ja niiden esimiehenä oli leeviläinen Koonanja, ja hänen veljensä Siimei oli häntä lähinnä.
French	On y apporta fidèlement les offrandes, la dîme, et les choses saintes. Le Lévite Conania en eut l`intendance, et son frère Schimeï était en second.
German	und taten hinein die Hebe, die Zehnten und das Geheiligte treulich. Und über dasselbe war Fürst Chananja, der Levit, und Simei, sein Bruder, der nächste nach ihm;
Hungarian	Behordák azért az ajándékokat, a tizedeket, és a mi megszenteltetett, nagy hûséggel, és ezeknek fõgondviselõje Konánia Lévita vala, a második pedig ennek atyjafia, Simei.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	lalu menyimpan semua pemberian dan sepersepuluhan itu di dalam gudang-gudang itu. Seorang Lewi yang bernama Konanya, ditugaskan menjadi pengawas, dan Simei adiknya dijadikan pembantunya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka ke dalamnya dibawanya masuk akan segala persembahan tatangan dan segala perpuluhan dan segala benda yang disucikan itu dengan setia hatinya; maka penghulu atas sekalian ini, ia itu Khonanya, seorang-orang Lewi, dan yang kedua itulah Simai, saudaranya.
Italian	Vi depositarono scrupolosamente le offerte, le decime e le cose consacrate. A tali cose presiedeva il levita Conania, alle cui dipendenze era il fratello Simei.
Maori	A kawea ana e ratou ki roto nga whakahere, nga whakatekau, nga mea i whakatapua; pono tonu ta ratou; ko te kaitiaki o aua mea, ko Konania Riwaiti; ko tona tuarua, ko tona teina, ko Himei.
Norwegian	kom folket ærlig og redelig med førstegrøden og tienden og de hellige gaver og la dem inn der. Levitten Konanja hadde opsyn med dette og næst efter ham hans bror Sime'i.
Portuguese	Ali recolheram fielmente as ofertas, os dízimos e as coisas dedicadas; e tinha o cargo disto o levita Conanias, e depois dele Simei, seu irmão.
Rumanian	Au adus kn ele cu credinciowie darurile de mkncare, zeciuiala, wi lucrurile sfinte. Levitul Conania avea grija lor, wi fratele squ Wimei era al doilea dupq el.
Spanish	y pusieron fielmente en ellas las ofrendas, los diezmos y las cosas consagradas. A cargo de ello estaban el oficial Conanías, levita, y su hermano Simei, segundo en rango.
Swedish	Och i dem förde man in offergärden och tionden och de heliga gåvorna, allt på heder och tro. Och överuppsyningsman däröver var leviten Konanja, och hans närmaste man var hans broder Simei.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Prefect

Derivations
	Words beginning with "prefect": prefects, prefectural, prefecture, prefectures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Prefect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Krefelt, Parfect, pefec, pefect, perfact, perfecti, perficit, perfict, perfikt, Praeiecti, predect, prefat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Prefect"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "prefect" (pronounced prē"fe'kt)
4	-f e' k t	aftereffect.
3	-e' k t	architect, aspect, circumspect, dialect, henpecked, insect, intellect, introspect, retrospect, transect.
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Anagrams: Prefect

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: perfect.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: recept, refect.
	-2 letters: creep, crepe, crept, erect, peter, terce.
	-3 letters: cepe, cere, cete, feet, fere, fete, free, fret, peer, pert, pree, reef, reft, rete, tree, tref.
	-4 letters: cee, cep, eft, ere, fee, fer, fet, pec, pee, per, pet, rec, ree, ref, rep, ret, tee.
	-5 letters: ef, er, et, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: perfecta, perfecto, perfects, praefect, prefects.
	+2 letters: imperfect, perfectas, perfected, perfecter, perfectly, perfectos, praefects, unperfect.
	+3 letters: afterpiece, imperfects, perfecters, perfectest, perfecting, perfection, perfective, pluperfect, precertify, prefecture, respectful.
	+4 letters: afterpieces, imperfectly, perfectible, perfections, perfectives, perfectness, pluperfects, prefectural, prefectures, superinfect.
	+5 letters: craftspeople, frontispiece, imperfection, imperfective, perfectively, perfectivity, precertified, precertifies, prefabricate, putrefactive, respectfully, superinfects.
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