conservation

/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/

conservation noun: the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Noun

conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
- “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

conservation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

conservation in Hindi

conservation: संरक्षण sanrakṣaṇ, सुरक्षा surakṣā

conservation in Tamil

வளங்காப்பு, பாதுகாத்தல், பேணுகை, காப்பு, காத்தல், பேணல்

conservation in Marathi

संवर्धन

conservation in Bengali

সংরক্ষণ, নিত্যতা, রক্ষা

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conservation in Telugu: నిత్యత nityata
conservation in Malayalam: സംരക്ഷണം saṁrakṣaṇaṁ
conservation in Kannada: ರಕ್ಷಣೆ, ಸಂರಕ್ಷಣೆ, ಪಾಲನೆ, ಸಂಗೋಪನೆ
conservation in Punjabi: ਸੰਭਾਲ਼ sambhāḷ
conservation in Tagalog: satinggal
conservation in Malay: pemuliharaan
conservation in Indonesian: konservasi

Examples of conservation in a sentence

She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.
Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
The conservation project depleted the lake of algae.

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Forms of conservation

plural	conservations

Plural of conservation: conservations

Origin of conservation

From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.

Words formed from conservation

Phrases with conservation

Words that rhyme with conservation

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Questions about conservation

What does conservation mean?: Conservation means the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
What is conservation in Hindi?: Conservation in Hindi is संरक्षण (sanrakṣaṇ), सुरक्षा (surakṣā). See Conservation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is conservation?: Conservation is a noun.
How do you pronounce conservation?: Conservation is pronounced /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/.
What is the plural of conservation?: The plural of conservation is conservations.

Words near conservation in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: conservation (page history and authors); संरक्षण (Hindi) (page history and authors); conservation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conservation (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నిత్యత (Telugu) (page history and authors); conservation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੰਭਾਲ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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