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conservatories

conservatories is the plural of conservatory.

Meaning of conservatory

Noun

conservatory (plural conservatories)

  1. (obsolete) A medicine, especially a magical preservative.
    • The auncient Catholyke fathers... were not afrayde to call this Supper... the foode of immortalitie... and the conseruatory to euerlastyng lyfe.1563, John Jewel, The Seconde Tome of Homelyes..., sig. IIII.i.v
  2. (chiefly historical Italian contexts) A school or clinic for orphans.
  3. (US) A music school.
    Synonyms:
    music school
  4. (archaic) A storehouse, a repository.
  5. (obsolete) An icehouse, a warehouse for ice.
  6. (obsolete) A cistern, an artificially collected body of water.

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Questions about conservatories

What is conservatories the plural of?
Conservatories is the plural of conservatory.

Words near conservatories in the dictionary

  1. conservatoires
  2. conservator
  3. conservatori
  4. conservatoria
  5. conservatorial
  6. conservatories
  7. conservatorio
  8. conservatorios
  9. conservatorium
  10. conservatoriums
  11. conservators

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