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curator

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cu·ra·tor  (ky-rtr, kyr-tr)
n.
One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.
[Middle English curatour, legal guardian, from Old French curateur, from Latin crtor, overseer, from crtus, past participle of crre, to take care of; see curative.]
cura·tori·al (kyr-tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
cu·rator·ship n.
curator
Noun
the person in charge of a museum or art gallery [Latin: one who cares]
curatorial adj
curatorship n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.curatorcurator - the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
conservator
custodian, keeper, steward - one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
Translations
Spanish curator [kjuəˈreɪtəʳ] n → director(a) m/f
French curator [kjuəˈreɪtəʳ] n → conservateur m (d'un musée etc)
German curator [kjuəˈreɪtəʳ] n → Kustos m
Italian curator [kjuəˈreɪtəʳ] n → direttore m (di museo etc)
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The Museum was given up to Indian arts and manufactures, and anybody who sought wisdom could ask the Curator to explain.
Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Here and there, the inmate has visitors to see the sight; then he points his finger, with something of the complacency of a curator or authorised exponent, to this cart and to this, and seems to tell who sat here yesterday, and who there the day before.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
Their keeper had a brace of pistols, and carried a thick-knobbed bludgeon under his arm; but he was on terms of good understanding with them, and stood, with them beside him, looking on at the putting-to of the horses, rather with an air as if the convicts were an interesting Exhibition not formally open at the moment, and he the Curator.
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