Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman law, one appointed to manage the affairs of a person past the age of puberty when from any cause he has become unfit to manage them himself.
- n. In civil law, a guardian; specifically, one who has the care of the estate of a minor or other incompetent person.
- n. One who has the care and superintendence of something, as of a public museum, fine-art collection, or the like.
- n. In Scotch law, one appointed as guardian for minors, incompetents, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
- n. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
Etymologies
- Middle English curatour, legal guardian, from Old French curateur, from Latin cūrātor, overseer, from cūrātus, past participle of cūrāre, to take care of; see curative.
Examples
“These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date," OED said in an online statement, describing itself as a word curator that had always "sought primarily to cover the language of its own time.”
“But don't the size fool you; here exists a direct correlation between scale and, yes, piety as befits the derivations of the word curator: late Middle English noun, an ecclesiastical pastor, or, more appropriate here, the Latin verb, "to cure".”
“A Nova Scotia science museum curator is writing a book on sea monsters.”
“Among the hardest tasks for the art museum curator is to draft wall labels of approximately 100 to 150 words.”
“Eileen Wallace, who is described as the curator rather than author or editor, remains decidedly in the background.”
The Huffington Post: Jules Siegel: It's Art, But Is It a Book?
“One of the neatest things about being the Women Grow Business editor/curator is that our host, Network Solutions, hardly ever asks for anything.”
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“My wish as a curator is that such exhibits will no longer be necessary, and that 10 years from now nobody will be interested in seeing a show about Hitler.”
“Also implied by the word curator is an intuitive sense of pattern recognition and glyphs.”
The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum
“The producer and executive curator is radio producer and talk show host Jim Freund.”
“(Photo: Martin Klimek) “In this age, where the curator is becoming just as important as the creator, the disc jockey becomes the life jockey,” Mr. Gabriel said.”
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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