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conservatory

/kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/US/kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/

conservatory adjective: having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.

Adjective

conservatory (comparative more conservatory, superlative most conservatory)

  1. Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
  2. (rare) Relating to conservation.

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
    • ...a tree appointed to be the cure of diseases and a conservatory of life...1655, Jeremy Taylor, Vnum Necessarium, page 371
  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.
  7. (obsolete) A reservoir, an artificially maintained body of water.
  8. (uncommon) A greenhouse, a glass-walled building for cultivating delicate plants.
    Synonyms:
    greenhouse, hothouse, orangery, planthouse
  9. (Ireland, UK) A solarium, a glass-walled and glass-roofed room in a house.
    • Joyce Barnaby: It's a lovely cottage in Badger's Drift. It's got two bedrooms, two living rooms and a conservatory.
    • DCI Tom Barnaby: Conservatory? Sounds like something out of Cluedo.
    • Cully Barnaby: Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the conservatory.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
  10. A drama school.
    Synonyms:
    academy of drama, drama school, theater school, theatre school

conservatory meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

conservatory in Hindi

संरक्षणालय

conservatory in Tamil

காப்பகம்

conservatory in Urdu

کنزرویٹری, کنزروویٹری, کنزرویٹوری

conservatory in Bengali

কনজারভেটরির, কনজারভেটরি
More languagesFewer languages
conservatory in Telugu
సంరక్షణాలయం, కన్సర్వేటరీ
conservatory in Malayalam
സംരക്ഷണാലയം, വേനൽക്കാലവസതി, ഗ്രീഷ്മഹർമ്മ്യം, ഗ്രീഷ്മനിവാസം
conservatory in Kannada
ಸಸ್ಯ ರಕ್ಷಣಾಗೃಹ, ಸಂಗೀತ ಶಾಲೆ, ಲಲಿತಕಲಾ ಶಾಲೆ
conservatory in Punjabi
ਕੰਜ਼ਰਵੇਟਰੀ, ਕਨਜ਼ਰਵੇਟਰੀ
conservatory in Gujarati
કન્ઝર્વેટરી, કન્ઝર્વેટોરી
conservatory in Nepali
संरक्षणालय, कन्जर्वेटरी, कन्जरभेटरी
conservatory in Tagalog
konserbatoryo

Examples of conservatory in a sentence

  • Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
  • The architecture of the conservatory was bubbly.
  • No independent conservatory, in the past or present, has a universitylike system of tenure.

All 11 example sentences with conservatory

Synonyms of conservatory

2 more synonymsFewer synonyms
  • theater school
  • theatre school

All synonyms of conservatory

Forms of conservatory

Adjective
comparativemore conservatory
superlativemost conservatory
Noun
pluralconservatories

Origin of conservatory

From Medieval Latin cōnservātōrius directly and via French conservatoire, from cōnservāre (“to conserve, to preserve”) + -torius (“-atory: forming related adjectives”) and/or conservator (“conservator, preserver, protector”) + -ius (“-y: forming related adjectives”).

From Medieval Latin cōnservātōrium directly and via French conservatoire and Italian conservatorio, from cōnservātus (“conserved, preserved”) + -ōrium (“-ory: forming related nouns”).

Words formed from conservatory

Questions about conservatory

What does conservatory mean?
Conservatory means having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
What is conservatory in Hindi?
Conservatory in Hindi is संरक्षणालय. See Conservatory meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is conservatory?
Conservatory can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce conservatory?
Conservatory is pronounced /kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/ (UK).

Words near conservatory in the dictionary

  1. conservatorium
  2. conservatoriums
  3. conservators
  4. conservatorship
  5. conservatorships
  6. conservatory
  7. conservatorylike
  8. conservatour
  9. conservatours
  10. conservatrices
  11. conservatrix

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: conservatory (page history and authors); conservatory (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conservatory (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conservatory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conservatory (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conservatory (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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