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Definition: Curator |
CuratorNoun1. The custodian of a collection (as a museum or library). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curator" was first used: sometime around 1375. (references) |
Etymology: Curator \Cu*ra"tor\. noun. [Latin, from curare to take care of, from cura care.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Archeological | A trained professional who is usually responsible for the care, exhibition, research, and enhancement of repository collections. Specific duties vary between repositories. (references) |
Occupations | Directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating exhibiting institution, such as museum, botanical garden, arboretum, art gallery, herbarium, or zoo: Directs activities concerned with instructional, acquisition, exhibitory, safekeeping, research, and public service objectives of institution. Assists in formulating and interpreting administrative policies of institution. Formulates plans for special research projects. Oversees curatorial, personnel, fiscal, technical, research, and clerical staff. Administers affairs of institution by corresponding and negotiating with administrators of other institutions to obtain exchange of loan collections or to exchange information or data, maintaining inventories, preparing budget, representing institution at scientific or association conferences, soliciting support for institution, and interviewing and hiring personnel. Obtains, develops, and organizes new collections to expand and improve educational and research facilities. Writes articles for publication in scientific journals. Consults with board of directors and professional personnel to plan and implement acquisitional, research, display and public service activities of institution. May participate in research activities. May be designated according to field of specialization as Curator, Art Gallery (museums); Curator, Herbarium (museums); Curator, Horticultural Museum (museums); Curator, Medical Museum (museums); Curator, Natural History Museum (museums); Curator, Zoological Museum (museums); Director, Industrial Museum (museums). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Synonym: CuratorSynonym: conservator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consignee | Functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum; (director); caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Curator |
| English words defined with "curator": curatorial, curatorship. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Curator" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (curator, guardian, overseer), Romanian (fiduciary, trustee). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Figure 1. Hooke bottle, invented in 1663 by Robert Hooke, assistant to Robert Boyle, "Curator of Experiments" of the Royal Society. Although this sampling device probably never operated as wished, it is still considered the prototype ancestor of many types of water sampling devices. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 59. Hooke sounder devised by Robert Hooke, curator of experiments of the British Royal Society, also took up Cardinal Cusanus's idea. Like the preceding similar devices, the depth measured was obtained by comparison with the time required for the float to ascend from a known depth. This instrument was designed in 1663 and tested in 5 to 6 meters water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Curator of the U.S. National Parasite Collection, Ralph Lichtenfels retrieves a specimen, one of several hundred that are lent to researchers worldwide each year. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Black and white wash painting of Shovelers (now known as Northern Shovelers) by Owen J. Gromme, formerly Curator of Birds and Mammals at the Milwaukee Public Museum. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Caption: Superintendent Melvin J. Weig, Right, Presenting Edison Electromotograph to a Representative of American University, Cairo, Egypt, Harold S. Anderson, Museum Curator, at Left; West Orange, NJ; July 29, 1966; {12.450/61} (jpg). |  | Carl W. Mitman, Curator of Engineering of the Smithsonian Institution photographed with a three-wheel automobile which has been recently acquired by that institution--This old auto in 1909 won first prize in a parade in New York as the oldest vehicle runn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Curator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.28% of the time. "Curator" is used about 441 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.28% | 429 | 13,364 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.72% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 441 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "curator": curator-in-chief. | |
Ending with "curator": co-curator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
curator | 38 |
curator fact | 29 |
museum curator | 13 |
curator fact iq | 3 |
art curator | 3 |
curator journal museum | 2 |
curator job | 2 |
curator public quebec | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "curator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përgjegjës (accountable, answerable, boss, chief, corresponding, counsellor, foreman, liable, manager, responsible, responsive, supervisor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وصي على قاصر, القيم على (keeper), أمين مكتبة أو متحف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кустос (custodian), попечител (conservator, custodian, sponsor, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 馆长. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | správce (administrator, bailiff, keeper, manager, rector, superintendent, warden), poruèník (custodian, Guardian, trustee, tutor), kustod (keeper), kurátor (churchwarden, keeper), ředitel (director, head, manager, principal, superintendent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | museumsinspektoer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conservator (conservator, ice cream cabinet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موزه دار, متصدی (Incumbent, Officer, Titular), نگهبان (Custodian, Escort, Guardian, Guardsman, Keeper, Lifeguard, Sentinel, Sentry, Ward, Warden, Watchdog, Watchman), کتابدار (Librarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | intendentti (superintendent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | curateur, conservateur de musée, conservateur (custodian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Museumsdirektor, kurator (Guardian, registrar, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έφοροσ μουσείου, έφοροσ (Regent), συντηρητής μουσείου, διευθυντήσ (boss, conductor, director, executive, intendant, manager, principal, wielder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מש'יח (caretaker, foreman, inspector, monitor, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, tender, tutelary), ' ז (archivist, keeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | múzeumvezető (custodian), kurátor (trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kurator (keeper (of manuscripts)), kepala (boss, chief, crest, head, heading, pate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | curatore (editor, trustee), conservatore di museo, conservatore (conservator, keeper, tory), tutore (Guardian, trustee), sovrintendente (controller, curatrix, superintendent, supervisor, warden), direttore (conductor, director, editor, editor in chief, governor, head, headmaster, leader, manager, master, principal, warden), amministratore (administrator, bailiff, churchwarden, director, governor, manager, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 館長 (chief librarian, director, superintendent), キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, Cupid, curacao, cure, curie, curiosity, curium, cute, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk, queue), 保佐人 (conservator), 学芸" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がく'いい", ほさに" (conservator), か"ちょう (a spy, authorities, CabinetSecretary, captain, chief abbot, chief librarian, director, ebb tide, enema, government office, Han Dynasty, low tide, one's best form, superintendent, superintendent priest), キュレーター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meoir (agent of estate, bailiff, custodian, ganger, keeper, manager, mayor, prefect, steward, supervisor, taskmaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uratorcay curador (administrator, committee, conservator, custodian, depository, healer, trustee). (various references) custode (conservator, custodian, Guardian, keeper), director (administrator, directing, director, executive, governor, guiding, headmaster, manager, master, principal, rector, steering, superior, warden). (various references) хранитель музея, куратор, опекун (administrator, conservator, custodian, trustee, tutor). (various references) kustos. (various references) conservador (blue, conservative, conservator, keeper, tory). (various references) museiintendent, kurator, förmyndare (custodian, guardian, trustee). (various references) veli (conservator, custodian, Guardian, patron), sorumlu (accountable, amenable, answerable, blameworthy, ex cathedra, in charge of, keeper, liable, managing, rep, responsible), müze müdürü, idareci (administrator, conductor, director, executive, housekeeper, intendant, manager, manipulator, ruler), galeri müdürü. (various references) хранитель (custodian, preserver, treasurer, watchman), куратор, опікун (administrator, committee, custodian, fiduciary, trustee), попечитель (trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curator. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curator": curatorial, curators, curatorship, curatorships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "curator": cocurator, procurator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "curator": cocurators, procuratorial, procurators. (additional references) | |
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"Curator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cavator, Ciriato, Couratari, crator, Cuatro, Cubatao, Cubatoa, curantur, curat, curater, currator, curto, Durafort, Muraour. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curator" (pronounced kyuhrā"ter or kyuh"ruter) |
| 4 | -r ā" t er | crater, Frater, freighter, grater, greater, Prater, rater, straighter, traitor. |
| 3 | -ā" t er | cater, creator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, gaiter, gator, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, skater, Slater, stater, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter. |
| 4 | -r u t er | conspirator, inheritor, interpreter, orator. |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, editor, elater, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: carrot, trocar, turaco. | |
-2 letters: actor, court, cruor, crura, taroc. | |
-3 letters: arco, auto, carr, cart, coat, curr, curt, orca, orra, rato, roar, rota, rout, taco, taro, tora, torc, torr, tour. | |
-4 letters: act, arc, art, car, cat, cor, cot, cur, cut, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, our, out, rat, roc, rot, rut, tao, tar, tau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: carryout, curators, turbocar. | |
+2 letters: carryouts, cocurator, corrugate, courtyard, raconteur, turbocars. | |
+3 letters: barracouta, carburetor, circulator, cocurators, coloratura, corrugated, corrugates, courtyards, curatorial, lubricator, procurator, raconteurs, rubricator, rusticator, trinocular, ultramicro. | |
+4 letters: articulator, barracoutas, carburetion, carburetors, carburettor, circulators, circulatory, coloraturas, compurgator, contracture, contrarious, corrugating, corrugation, counterpart, counterraid, crematorium, curatorship, intraocular, lubricators, mercuration, oracularity, procrustean, procuration, procurators, provocateur, purificator, rubrication, rubricators, rusticators, subcontrary, treacherous, urochordate, watercourse. | |
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