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PREFECTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The office of prefect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("prefecture" is a kind of...):
berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)
Derivation:
prefectural (of or relating to a prefecture)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("prefecture" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Domain region:
Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Derivation:
prefectural (of or relating to a prefecture)
