Crossword-Solution: PREFECT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prefect | n. | 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. |
| Prefect | n. | A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation. |
| Prefect | n. | In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PREFECT | anagram | PERFECT |
We have 26 clues for the answer “PREFECT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| senior pupil in a school, with limited power over others | 1 answer |
| department head French | 1 answer |
| Senior student given extra authority by the headmaster | 1 answer |
| Ron Weasley was one in his fifth year | 1 answer |
| Parisian police officer | 1 answer |
| French department head | 1 answer |
| Former Jesuit school official | 1 answer |
| FRENCH departement head/officer | 1 answer |
| Chief of the Paris police | 1 answer |
| Chief magistrate | 1 answer |
| CLASS monitor | 1 answer |
| chief officer | 2 answers |
| Senior pupil | 2 answers |
| praepostor | 3 answers |
| prepostor | 3 answers |
| Authority figure | 5 answers |
| Ancient Roman magistrate | 6 answers |
| Carthaginian magistrate | 10 answers |
| A CHIEF OFFICER OR CHIEF MAGISTRATE | 10 answers |
| A MAYOR OR CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF A SPANISH TOWN | 11 answers |
| APOSTOLIC | 14 answers |
| Headman | 21 answers |
| magistrate | 28 answers |
| monitor | 32 answers |
| Officer | 50 answers |
| Head | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PREFECT (5)
School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda.
CHAPTER 10 A Great Chance for a Villain It was the custom that the Prefect of Police should send every afternoon a report to me on the condition of the capital and the feeling of the people: the document included also an account of the movements of any persons whom the police had received instructions to watch.
Taken to the office of the prefect of police, then to Sainte-Pelagie, he was in the Conciergerie on the day of the 13th of June, 1849, which ended with the violent suppression of "Le Peuple." He then began to write the "Confessions of a Revolutionist," published towards the end of the year.
First, Faauma—the bronze candlestick, whom otherwise I called my butler—bolted from the bed and bosom of Lafaele, the Archangel Hercules, prefect of the cattle.
There, in a half-amused way, without the least concern, sitting at times on the edge of the Prefect's writing-table, Gabrielle Bompard told how she had been the unwilling accomplice of her lover, Eyraud, in the murder of the bailiff, Gouffe.
Quotes with PREFECT (3)
Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you...""Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.
Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-""Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea.""Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-""Or twice-""A minute-""All summer-""Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1997–2016).