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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. In civil law, a guardian; specifically, one who has the care of the estate of a minor or other incompetent person.
  3. n. One who has the care and superintendence of something, as of a public museum, fine-art collection, or the like.
  4. n. In Scotch law, one appointed as guardian for minors, incompetents, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  2. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
  2. 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

  1. n. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin curator ("one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee"), from curare ("to take care of"), from cura ("care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief"). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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