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Definition: Conservator |
ConservatorNoun1. The custodian of a collection (as a museum or library). 2. Someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conservator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Etymology: Conservator \Con"ser*va`tor\, noun. [Latin: compare to the French expression conservateur.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Archeological | A person trained in the theoretical and practical aspects of preventive conservation and in performing treatments to prolong the lives of objects and documents. Often specializes in a particular class of objects or materials. (references) |
Finance | (1) a person appointed by a court to protect and preserve the property of an individual who is physically or mentally unable to handle his or her own affairs. (2) a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of an estate. (3) an agency or person placed in charge of a troubled savings institution or bank by federal or state authorities to protect and conserve the assets of the institution while more permanent measures for dealing with the institution are worked out. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A refrigerated cabinet for retail storage of ice cream. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ConservatorSynonym: curator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judge | Noun: judge; justice, justiciar, justiciary; chancellor; justice of assize, judge of assize; recorder, common sergeant; puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge; conservator of the peace, justice of the peace; J.P.; court; (tribunal); magistrate, police magistrate, beak; his worship, his honor, his lordship. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conservator |
| English words defined with "conservator": conservator-ward relation ♦ Petty constable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conservator": conservatorship ♦ fiduciary account ♦ working plans circle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Conservator" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (blue, conservative, conservatoire, conservatory, die hard, rightist, tory). |
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 | Figure 55. Stahlberg mounting devised by Dr. Walter Stahlberg, conservator of the Museum fur Meereskunde at Berlin. This mounting could be used with either a messenger for reversing in relatively shallow water or a helical system for deep water. It was used on board the German vessel MOWE off the coast of Africa in 1911. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Manuel II, King of Portugal on board. Left to right: Dr. Girard, conservator of the marine animal collections made by King Don Carlos, father of King Manuel; King Manuel; H. Bouree. Plate VI, print 2. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Conservator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Conservator" is used about 32 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) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "conservator": working plans conservator. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conservator": conservator-ward relation. | |
| 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 |
conservator | 45 |
ancillary arizona conservator lawyer | 6 |
architectural conservator | 4 |
conservator painting | 3 |
art conservator | 3 |
conservator oil painting | 2 |
conservator possessory | 2 |
conservator managing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conservator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ruajtës (bailee, preservative, protective, retentive), mbrojtës (advocate, apologetic, apologetical, back, champion, defender, fullback, guard, Guardian, keeper, paraclete, patron, protective, protector, quarterback, tutelar, vindicator, vindicatory). (various references) | |
Arabic | الواقي (condom, glove, preservative), الواصي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | настойник (sponsor, tutor), надзирател (gaffer, house-father, inspector, manager, overseer, peeper, prison guard, straw boss, super, superintendent, supervisor, task master, warden, warder), защитник (advocate, back, defender, guard, paraclete, patron, pleader, prophet, proponent, protagonist, protection, protector, quarterback, respondent, square leg, supporter, vindicator), попечител (curator, custodian, sponsor, trustee). (various references) | |
Chinese | 保存者 (Conserver). (various references) | |
Danish | iscremekonservator (ice cream cabinet). (various references) | |
Dutch | conservator (curator, ice cream cabinet). (various references) | |
Finnish | jäätelöpakastearkku (ice cream cabinet). (various references) | |
French | conservateur d'huile (oil conservator), conservateur de crème glacée, conservateur (conservative), vase d'expension (oil conservator), tuteur. (various references) | |
German | Oelkonservator (oil conservator), Gefriertruhe fuer Eiskrem (ice cream cabinet), Eiskremkonservator (ice cream cabinet), Ausdehnungsgefaess (oil conservator). (various references) | |
Greek | θάλαμος συντήρησης κρέμας παγωτού (ice cream cabinet), θαλαμίσκος συντήρησης κρέμας παγωτού (ice cream cabinet), διατηρητής αρχαίων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenntartó (conservatory, sustaining, sustentive), megőrző (conservatory, depositary, depository, retentive), múzeumi őr. (various references) | |
Italian | conservatore (curator, keeper, tory), gelatiera (ice cream cabinet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コロンブスの卵 (Columbus Day, Columbus' egg, computer graphics, conc., concentrated, concert, concert hall, concert master, concertante, concise, conclave, concord, Concorde, concourse, concrete, concrete block, concrete jungle, concrete mixer, concrete pile, concurrent, conga, conglomerate, conglomerate merchant, Congo, congratulations, congress, congress gaiters, conscious, conservation, conservative, conservatory, consultant, consultant engineer, consulting, consulting sales, consumer, Consumer Interpole, consumering, consumerism, consumers' relation, consumers' research, consumption, contest, CR), 保佐人 (curator). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほさに" (curator), コンサベーター . (various references) | |
Korean | 보호자 (Protector). (various references) | |
Manx | freilleyder (conservationist, custodian, keeper, preserver). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onservatorcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | curador (administrator, committee, curator, custodian, depository, guardian, healer, trustee), conservador (conservative, tory), chefe (authority, boss, chef, chief, chief-, chieftain, cock-a-doodle-doo, commander, commander-in-chief, command-in-chief, compere, conductor, controller, director, employer, father, fugleman, governor, head, headman, kingpin, leader, master, prince, principal, proprietor, ringleader, sirdar), vitrina de conservação de sorvete (ice cream cabinet), fiscal (check, controller, fiscal, gaffer, inspector, inspectoral, inspectorial, land-surveyor, overman, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor), administrador (assignee, comptroller, controller, director, dispenser, factor, fallow deer, hind, manager, manciple, officer, overseer, ruler, steward, trustee, warden). (various references) | |
Romanian | custode (curator, custodian, Guardian, keeper), paznic (Guardian, guardsman, keeper, looker, lookout, tender, watchman). (various references) | |
Russian | охранитель, опекун (administrator, curator, custodian, trustee, tutor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | konzervator. (various references) | |
Spanish | conservador (blue, conservative, curator, keeper, tory). (various references) | |
Swedish | upprätthållare (upholder), bevarare. (various references) | |
Turkish | veli (curator, custodian, Guardian, patron), vasi (administrator, custodian, Guardian, tutelar, tutelary, tutor), koruyucu (contraceptive, Guardian, guarding, keeper, life saver, patron, preservative, preserver, preventive, prophylactic, protecting, protective, protector, protectress, safeguard, safety, sentinel, tutelar, tutelary, umbrella, warden), korumacı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хоронитель (depositary, warden, warder), охоронець (body-guard, caretaker, custodian, depositary, escort, keeper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người giữ gìn, người bảo vệ (bulwark, protector), người bảo quản chuyên viên bảo quản. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conservator": conservatorial, conservatories, conservators, conservatorship, conservatorships, conservatory. (additional references) | |
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"Conservator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Conservador, conservagtor, conservateur, Conservatori, Conservatorio, Monserato, Monservate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conservator" (pronounced kunser"vuter) |
| 3 | -u t er | editor, elater, accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, 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-e-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: convertors, renovators. | |
-2 letters: cavorters, convertor, corantoes, coronates, evocators, overcoats, ratooners, renovator, resonator. | |
-3 letters: ancestor, antrorse, cartoons, cavorter, centavos, converts, corantos, coronate, coroners, coronets, creators, crooners, enactors, evocator, ostracon, overacts, overcast, overcoat, ratooner, reactors, sororate. | |
-4 letters: atoners, avocets, canters, cantors, carnets, carrots, carters, cartons, cartoon, carvers, caverns, cavorts, centavo, coarsen, coarser, coaster, coaters, consort, contras. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: conservators, conservatory. | |
+2 letters: anticorrosive, conservatoire, controversial, overreactions. | |
+3 letters: anticorrosives, conservatoires, conservatorial, conservatories. | |
+4 letters: conservatorship, controversially, overdecorations, overextractions, uncontroversial. | |
+5 letters: conservatorships, controversialism, controversialist, cryopreservation, noncontroversial, overcompensatory, overconservative. | |
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