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curatour

curatour is the obsolete form of curator.

Meaning of curator

Noun

curator (plural curators)

  1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
    • The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
  2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
  3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
  4. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
  5. A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

Forms of curatour

pluralcuratours

Questions about curatour

What is curatour the obsolete form of?
Curatour is the obsolete form of curator.

Words near curatour in the dictionary

  1. curators
  2. curatorship
  3. curatorships
  4. curatory
  5. curatos
  6. curatour
  7. curatours
  8. curatress
  9. curatresses
  10. curatrices
  11. curatrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curatour (page history and authors); curator (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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