Prefect vs Colonel - What's the difference?
prefect | colonel |
An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
The head of a department in France.
A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
A commander.
A commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
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As nouns the difference between prefect and colonel
is that prefect is an official of ancient rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc while colonel is a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps in us military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.prefect
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(wikipedia prefect)Alternative forms
* (old-fashioned) * praefectNoun
(en noun)- the prefect''' of the aqueducts; the '''prefect''' of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian '''prefect , who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person
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*colonel
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* (l) (obsolete) * (abbreviation) * (abbreviation)Noun
(en noun)- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.