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custodio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • custodian noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  • guardian noun Someone who protects or watches over a person or thing.
  • keeper noun Someone or something worth holding on to.

Senses

custodio is used for these senses in English:

  • custodian A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
  • custos (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.
  • guardian (legal) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
  • keeper A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

custodian — full definition

  1. noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  2. noun US: a janitor or cleaner, especially in a school or office building.

guardian — full definition

  1. noun Someone who protects or watches over a person or thing.
  2. noun A person legally responsible for the care of a child or someone unable to care for themselves.

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