Prefecture

What do we mean by prefecture?

The district administered or governed by a prefect. noun

An administrative district of some countries, especially China or Japan. noun

The office or authority of a prefect. noun

The residence or housing of a prefect. noun

The office or jurisdiction of a prefect, chief magistrate, commander, or viceroy. noun

The district under the government of a prefect. noun

The official residence of a prefect. noun

A term often used by foreigners in and writers on China as equivalent to fu, an administrative division consisting of several districts called hien or chow. See fu. noun

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

An office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; the official residence of that prefect. noun

A district governed by a prefect (especially in France and Japan) noun

The office of prefect noun

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

The office or position of a prefect.

The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.

Words that are spelled similarly to prefecture:
prefecture, prefectural, projecture, prefectures, pretexture.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word prefecture:
centering, prefectural, shikoku, vicariate, fukuoka, gansu, prefect, akita, togo, kyushu, intermittently, nagano, nagoya, hunan, meiji, kara, nara, apostolic, tian, osaka, hiroshima, kyoto, wang, nagasaki, edo, yang, tang, shi, tokyo, gao, okinawa, qin, japan, samurai, tibet, autonomous, dong, jin, yan, bordering, modern, roughly, imperial, qing, kai, han, emperor, expressway, tibetan, shrine, mountainous, siege, china, chen, yuan, existed, circuit, abolished, elevated, empress, clan, surrendered, dynasty, domain, province, japanese, kilometers, earthquake, taiwan, guinea, diocese, dome, recalled, designated, missionary, borders, chancellor, region, connects, submitted, fled, governor, mountains, jurisdiction, merged, capital, neighboring, significance, territory, mount, administrative, graduated, flows, thereafter, beijing.

Words that rhyme with prefecture:
conjecture, architecture, lecture, norman architecture, byzantine architecture, tudor architecture, computer architecture, gothic architecture, landscape architecture, romanesque architecture, greek architecture, moorish architecture, roman architecture, classical architecture, victorian architecture, network architecture, greco-roman architecture, curtain lecture, public lecture, master of architecture, bachelor of science in architecture, style of architecture, type of architecture.

Adjectives that are often used to describe prefecture:
sub, day, praetorian, same, present, modern, sous, northern, central, southern, autonomous, urban, chou, eastern, whole, local, western, japanese, rural, entire, apostolic, southeastern, native, southwestern, neighboring, single, northwestern, northeastern, metropolitan, gallic, pretorian, roman, former, iwate, provincial, illyrian, french, southernmost, mountainous, nearby, yang, regional, separate, presentday, seine, chinese, imperial, chiang, cho, largest, italian, hsing, poorest, remote, distant, neighbouring, meng, northernmost, maritime, nearest, today, hua, nan, adjacent, ning, departmental, honorary, oriental, respective, smallest.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective prefecture:
tax, level, apostolic, cochinchine, county, police, magistrate, seine, tribunal, system, area, birao.

Words that sound like prefecture:
prefecture, prefectures, prefigure, prefect, perfecter, perfector, prefectural, projecture, prefix, prix fixe, professor, profesor, prefects, professeur, professore, profiter, prefixed, prefigured, perfect, prefer, preacher, protector, projector, protecter, profection, perfecta, perfekt, provoker, profiler, prime factor, profaner, prosector, prelature.