prefecture

English

Alternative forms

• præfecture (archaic)

Etymology

Latin praefectūra.

Noun

prefecture (plural prefectures)

1. A office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; the official residence of that prefect.
2. A district governed by a prefect (especially in France and Japan)

Translations

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect

Finnish: perfektuuri (fi) German: Präfektur (de) f.

Romanian: prefectură (ro) Russian: префектура (ru) (prefektúra) f.

The district governed by a prefect

Albanian: Prefektura (sq) m. Arabic: ولاية (ar) (wilaaya) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 縣 (zh), 县 (zh) (xiàn), 都道府縣 (zh), 都道府县 (zh) (dūdàofǔxiàn) (of Japanese prefectures), 省 (zh) (shěng) Finnish: perfektuuri (fi) French: préfecture (fr) f. German: Präfektur (de) f. Greek: νομός (el) (nomós) m. Hebrew: מחוז (he)

Japanese: 県 (ja) (けん, ken), 府 (ja) (ふ, fu), 都道府県 (ja) (とどうふけん, to-dō-fu-ken) (of Japanese prefectures) Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត (km) (aa naa kʰaet) Korean: 현 (ko) (hyeon) (縣 (ko)), 도도부현 (ko) (dodobuhyeon) (都道府縣 (ko)) Lojban: gugypau (jbo) Polish: prefektura (pl) Romanian: prefectură (ro) Russian: префектура (ru) (prefektúra) f. Vietnamese: tỉnh (vi) (省 (vi))