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# prefecture

noun

«prefecture» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

70 uses in 21 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 70 of 70. By the class of the article: city 8, country 5, other 4, agglomeration 3. Most often with: «city», «part», «area», «include», «region».

### Examples

- Instead, it chose to have several athletes villages spread across the prefecture. — [2026 Asian Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Asian_Games), sentence 12 («wiki:2026\_Asian\_Games:12»)
- Angoulême (ɑ̃ɡulɛːm; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Engoleime) is a small city in the southwestern French department of Charente, of which it is the prefecture. — [Angoulême](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), sentence 1 («wiki:Angoulême:1»)
- After the Meiji Restoration, the feudal domains were abolished and replaced with prefectures, of which a total of six were initially created in the territory of modern Aomori Prefecture. — [Aomori](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori), sentence 14 («wiki:Aomori:14»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«2026 Asian Games»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Asian_Games), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Angoulême»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Aomori»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.