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1. (n.) prefect
a person appointed to any of various positions of authority or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
2. prefect
the dean of a Jesuit school.
3. prefect
a cardinal in charge of a congregation in the Curia Romana.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME < L praefectus, n. use of ptp. of praeficere to put in charge =prae-pre - +-ficere, comb. form of facere to make,
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1. (noun) prefect
a chief officer or chief magistrate
"the prefect of Paris police"
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1. (noun) prefect
a Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person
2. (noun) prefect
a superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation
3. (noun) prefect
in the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop
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Sense: one of a number of senior pupils having special powers in a school etc.
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 Afrikaans: prefek |
 Arabic: عَريف الصَّف، مُناظِر الد |
 Bulgarian: ученик, отговорник за дис |
 Brazilian: monitor |
 Czech: student mající dozor |
 German: der/die Ordner(in) |
 Danish: præfekt |
 Greek: επιμελητής |
 Spanish: tutor, monitor |
 Estonian: klassiprefekt |
 Farsi: مبصر |
 Finnish: valvojaoppilas |
 French: élève (chargé de la disci |
 Hebrew: תַלמִיד בָּכִיר |
 Hindi: प्रधान |
 Croatian: starijiđak koji podučava |
 Hungarian: szenior; prefektus |
 Indonesian: ketua kelas |
 Icelandic: umsjónarmaður |
 Italian: capoclasse |
 Japanese: 監督生 |
 Korean: 급장 |
 Lithuanian: vyresnysis mokinys |
 Latvian: klases vecākais |
 Malay: pengawas |
 Dutch: oudere leerling als ordeh |
 Norwegian: prefekt, ordenselev |
 Polish: starszy uczeń |
 Persian: مبصر |
 Pashto: مبصر |
 Portuguese: monitor |
 Romanian: şef al clasei |
 Russian: староста |
 Slovak: študent majúci dozor |
 Slovenian: starejši dijak |
 Serbian: redar |
 Swedish: ordningsman |
 Thai: หัวหน้านักเรียน |
 Turkish: öğrenci temsilcisi |
 Taiwanese: 學校中的年級負責學生，級長 |
 Ukrainian: староста |
 Urdu: سينئر طلبہ |
 Vietnamese: lớp trưởng |
 Chinese: 学校中的年级负责学生，级长 |
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