Definitions for prefect

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prefect pre·fect

Spelling: [pree-fekt]

IPA: /ˈpri fɛkt/

Prefect is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in prefect (ceefprt).

Definitions for prefect

noun

1. a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
2. Roman Catholic Church. the dean of a Jesuit school or college. a cardinal in charge of a congregation in the Curia Romana.
3. Chiefly British. a praeposter.

Origin of prefect

1300-50; Middle English Latin praefectus overseer, director (noun use of past participle of praeficere to make prior, i.e., put in charge), equivalent to prae- pre- +

Examples for prefect

With these words I rang for my footman to show the prefect of Police to the door.

The detachment on duty there accompanied the prefect and the colonel as a guard of honour.

But don't forget to ask the prefect to let me stay in Rome over to-morrow.

You know that Monsieur Garconnet is entertaining the colonel and the prefect.

"You shall be supplied above and beyond all your wishes," said the prefect.

Rich and smooth with a subtly bitter flavor, Guinness is a prefect drinking beer—and baking beer.

He will place fifty thousand men at the disposition of your prefect.

But the prefect of Paris has formed a more serious opinion, your Excellency.

The prefect of the Department, the Bishop, the clergy, objected to her story.

I stopped a minute before entering the prefect's suite of rooms.