præserve
præserve is the archaic spelling of preserve.
Meaning of preserve
Noun
preserve (countable and uncountable, plural preserves)
- A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
- A reservation, a nature preserve.
- Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
- An exclusive area of activity.
- Kids regard their tree houses as their own preserve.
Forms of præserve
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | præserves |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | præserves |
| third-person singular present | præserveth |
| present participle | præserving |
| past participle | præserved |
| past | præserved |
Questions about præserve
- What is præserve the archaic spelling of?
- Præserve is the archaic spelling of preserve.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: præserve (page history and authors); preserve (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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