Meanings
plural prefabs · alternative pre-fab
- A prefabricated building.
Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41 - A prefabricated section of a building.
- UKA single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
- computingA reusable object in a video game world.
present singular third person prefabs · participle present prefabbing · participle past prefabbed · past prefabbed · alternative pre-fab
- transitiveTo prefabricate.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemanufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
A clipping.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 板房, 工棚
- 板房 (bǎnfáng)prefabricated building
- 工棚 (gōngpéng)prefabricated building
- 集裝箱 /集装箱 (jízhuāngxiāng)prefabricated building
- 活動板房 /活动板房 (huódòng bǎnfáng)prefabricated building
- 預製板房 /预制板房 (yùzhì bǎnfáng)prefabricated building
- 鐵皮房 /铁皮房 (tiěpífáng)prefabricated building
Finnish valmistalo, elementti
- valmistaloprefabricated building
- elementtiprefabricated section of a building
Japanese プレハブ, プレハブ
- プレハブ (purehabu)prefabricated building
- プレハブ (purehabu)prefabricated section of a building
Turkish prefabrik ev
- prefabrik evprefabricated building
Cite this entry
prefab. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefab
“prefab.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefab. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prefab,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prefab.
Source: prefab on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.