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/kənsˈərvətɔri/ Listen

noun

Conservatory n.

That which preserves from injury. (Obs.) "A conservatory of life."

A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.

A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.

adjective

Conservatory adj. Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.

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Etymology of 'Conservatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conservatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... Quixote! But I am rambling too wildly among the Hafod rocks—I hasten, therefore to return and take the reader with me into the interior of Mr. Johnes's largest library, which is terminated by a Conservatory of upwards of 150 feet. As the ancient little books for children [hight Lac Puerorum!] used to express ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... singers, one a graduate of the conservatory of music in Boston, and Mr. Dodd was a fine singer himself; he would often sing with the prisoners and it was a great pleasure to me. One song he would have the boys sing was: "My Old Kentucky Home." We had a genuine poet there, and ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... the edge of the ditch which bordered the road, turning his back on the mountains which rise like an amphitheatre to the north of the town, and having at his feet a rich plain covered with tropical vegetation, exotics of a conservatory, trees and flowers quite unknown in ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... the cultivation of plants, she would be able to give much pleasure to her friends by caring for a private conservatory or window-garden. In this way she could learn much about plants, and become a successful florist. Then, if there were reasons why she should earn a living, with a small capital she could gradually work into the cultivation of ...

— Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! • Annie H. Ryder

... Saint Cecilia Ball. Also she was rather ignorant, rather unhappy, and completely aimless. She and her daughter spent their summers three miles from Grimsby Head, in an estate with a gate-house and a conservatory and a golf course and a house with three towers and other architecture. When America becomes a military autocracy she will be Lady Carter or the ...

— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis

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