Prefect is valid Scrabble Word

Is prefect a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is prefect valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PREFECT in dictionary:

NOUN:

an ancient Roman official, also PRAEFECT
(in some schools) a senior pupil who is authorized to enforce discipline.
a chief officer, magistrate, or regional governor in certain countries
a senior magistrate or governor in the ancient Roman world
senior pupil in a school, with limited power over others
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.
A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.
In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.
a chief officer or chief magistrate

Words related to PREFECT

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How to use PREFECT in a sentence

The Prefect of Rome then took possession of his person and caused him to be hanged.
But this is a point, it appears, somewhat above or beneath the understanding of the Prefect.
They pose in attitudes of sleep like a dormitory of small boys on the approach of a prefect.
The Prefect of the Seine expressed a desire to see it and called by appointment yesterday.
Who had touched me? Whom had I met? Through what streets had I come? In ten minutes the Prefect had the matter in hand.
In March, 1803, the French Prefect Laussat arrived to make preparations to take possession of the country.
The Prefect of the Department took a fancy to it, and had not the good judgment to leave it where it had so long been an object of curiosity.
At the Sonoita the invaders were met by a proclamation from Pesquiera, forwarded through Redondo, the Prefect of Altar, warning them not to enter the State of Sonora.
There existed, in the neighborhood of Amida, the elements of a relieving army, under the command of the new prefect of the East, Sabinianus.
The prefect Sallust, whose superior rank and length of service pointed him out for promotion to the vacant post, excused himself on account of his age and infirmities.

One of their number is appointed prefect, and has a prelate for his secretary.
It was purchased by the prefect of the Seine for one hundred and sixty thousand francs, for a cemetery, it then containing forty-two acres of ground.
I had hardly been there ten days, before a courier arrived from the prefect of Geneva to order me to return.
He was sure the Prefect of Police had come to his house to hang him.
The Prefect of Police let his fury loose on them and treated them like the most infamous of animals.
The fete was given by the Prefect of the Seine, in whose salons the two social worlds of Paris met as on neutral ground.
Its prefect is a man of singular enlightenment, who rules with a justice that is rarely known in China.
Rome itself was governed by a prefect, whose duty it was to preserve the public peace.
He put himself into secret communication with the prefect and the magistrates.
He glanced furtively at the prefect and saw him convulsed with smothered laughter.
At the foot of the great standing stone Sir Oscar Redmain, as steward or prefect of Bute, took his seat as judge.
The prefect of the palace stood close by this table, with his hat under his arm.
At the conclusion of the war in 1825, he was appointed prefect of the department of Potosi, with a population of 300,000 souls.
The Duke of Aosta, Prefect of Naples, directed the work of rescue, while his wife assisted in the care of the injured.
The country was divided into Roman provinces, over each of which a prefect was established.

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