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Plural of curator

regular plural

The plural of curator is curators.

Forms of curator

Singularcurator /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Pluralcurators
Countablecountable

Curators in a sentence

  • 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
  • The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.From the entry preservative
  • How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions?2013 September 25, Jonathan Jones, “Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?”, in The Guardian. From the entry wacky
  • The society’s curators did not disassemble any memorials, but worked with shrinekeepers who sought a more permanent home for their materials.2002 March 8, Glenn Collins, “Vessels of a City’s Grief: Displays From Sept. 11 Form a Museum Exhibition”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry shrinekeeper
  • In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry Americas

Meaning of curator

  1. noun A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  2. noun 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. noun A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.

Full definition of curator

Questions about the plural of curator

What is the plural of curator?
The plural of curator is curators.
Is curator countable?
Curator is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curator (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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