How do you use Prefecture in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like place or billet, plus the exact meaning.
Prefecture meaning
- The office or position of a prefect.
- The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.
Synonyms of Prefecture
Using Prefecture
- The main meaning on this page is: The office or position of a prefect. | The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.
- Useful related words include: administrative district, place, billet, spot.
- In the example corpus, prefecture often appears in combinations such as: ishikawa prefecture, the prefecture, prefecture of.
Context around Prefecture
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prefecture
- In this selection, "prefecture" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aichi, kagoshima, gifu, part, ranked and located stand out and add context to how "prefecture" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a metropolitan prefecture which differs and a single prefecture in japan. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prefecture" sits close to words such as airs, albion and beginnings, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prefecture
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
About 50% of these moves were within the same prefecture; the others were relocations from one prefecture to another. (19 words)
This miso requires a long maturing term. Mame miso is consumed mostly in Aichi prefecture, part of Gifu prefecture, and part of Mie prefecture. (24 words)
An explosion occurred on Oct. 16 at the factory belonging to Chuo Spring in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, which makes suspension springs. (24 words)
Blessed with clear streams and cool weather that are ideal for sake brewing, the Suwa area is home to many breweries, with Nagano Prefecture ranked second in Japan – trailing just behind Niigata Prefecture – in number of sake breweries. (38 words)
Chief Executive Officer Glenn Chai told reporters that the airline will offer two round-trip flights each week from Taoyuan International Airport, which serves Taipei, to Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture and to Kansai Airport in Osaka Prefecture. (38 words)
A floating object believed to belong to the U.S. military aircraft V-22 Osprey that crashed into the sea is seen off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, western Japan November 30, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
This miso requires a long maturing term. Mame miso is consumed mostly in Aichi prefecture, part of Gifu prefecture, and part of Mie prefecture.
Blessed with clear streams and cool weather that are ideal for sake brewing, the Suwa area is home to many breweries, with Nagano Prefecture ranked second in Japan – trailing just behind Niigata Prefecture – in number of sake breweries.
The Japan Meteorological Agency record-breaking, single-day rainfall totals of 12.2 inches at Isa in Kagoshima Prefecture and 11.9 inches at Hita in Oita Prefecture.
The ruling means Shikoku Electric’s Ikata No. 3 reactor in Ehime Prefecture, located less than 50 kilometers from Oita Prefecture, will continue to operate.
Chief Executive Officer Glenn Chai told reporters that the airline will offer two round-trip flights each week from Taoyuan International Airport, which serves Taipei, to Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture and to Kansai Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
Seventy cases - the largest from a single prefecture in Japan - have been detected in the island prefecture, where experts have raised concern about growing clusters of patients with unknown transmission routes.
Four women in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, are creating accessories made from plastic fragments collected at beaches in Aichi Prefecture, selling them amid growing global concerns over the microplastic waste in the ocean.
Her name is Maetel and she appears in Leiji Matsumoto’s classic manga, Galaxy Express 999. While traveling in Japan, my daughter and I have seen her in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture and in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Rainfall of about 110 millimeters over one hour was observed in areas around the town of Kawasaki, Fukuoka Prefecture, and the city of Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, according to the agency.
West Japan Railway Co. built the Sanko Line to link Gotsu Station in the city of Gotsu, Shimane Prefecture, with Miyoshi Station in Miyoshi in Hiroshima Prefecture.
About 50% of these moves were within the same prefecture; the others were relocations from one prefecture to another.
At the second-tier prefecture level, the city is designated as the Conakry Special Zone, though the prefecture and regional government are one and the same.
If implemented, Osaka City, neighbouring Sakai City and possibly other surrounding municipalities would dissolve and be reorganized as special wards of Osaka prefecture – similar to former Tokyo City 's successor wards within Tokyo prefecture.
Tokyo is often referred to as a city, but is officially known and governed as a "metropolitan prefecture", which differs from and combines elements of a city and a prefecture, a characteristic unique to Tokyo.
A 26-year-old male guard at Kakogawa Prison in Hyogo Prefecture was sent to the prosecutors last May, suspected of instructing an inmate to open his mouth and then spraying hand sanitizer into it.
A bus carrying 30 members of a high-school soccer club overturned Saturday in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, with 10 of the students injured and taken to hospitals, local authorities said.
A floating object believed to belong to the U.S. military aircraft V-22 Osprey that crashed into the sea is seen off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, western Japan November 30, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
A government panel on Tuesday adopted emergency measures to be taken in the event of a possible major earthquake off the Pacific coast between the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and the Tohoku northeastern region.
An explosion occurred on Oct. 16 at the factory belonging to Chuo Spring in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, which makes suspension springs.
Another consortium of Mitsui & Co., RWE and Osaka Gas won the 684 MW wind farm off the coast of Murakami-Tainai in Niigata Prefecture.
Common combinations with prefecture
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ishikawa prefecture 18×
- the prefecture 16×
- prefecture of 12×
- prefecture in 11×
- prefecture on 10×
- prefecture and 9×
- chiba prefecture 9×
- osaka prefecture 7×
- prefecture where 7×
- prefecture japan 7×