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conservatour

conservatour is the obsolete form of conservator.

Meaning of conservator

Noun

conservator (plural conservators)

  1. One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
    • Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
  2. A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
    • The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
  3. An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
  4. 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.
  5. A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

Forms of conservatour

pluralconservatours

Questions about conservatour

What is conservatour the obsolete form of?
Conservatour is the obsolete form of conservator.

Words near conservatour in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conservatour (page history and authors); conservator (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.

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