conservator — meaning in English
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English meaning
- conservator noun One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- curator noun Someone who manages, organizes, and oversees a collection, such as at a museum, gallery, or archive.
- keeper noun Someone or something worth holding on to.
Senses
conservator is used for these senses in English:
- conservator One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- curator A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
- keeper A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
conservator — full definition
- noun One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- noun A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- noun An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- noun A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.