Curator Definition

kyo͝o-rātər, kyo͝orə-tər
curators
noun
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A person in charge of a formal collection or exhibition, as at a museum or zoo.
Webster's New World
A guardian, as of a minor.
Webster's New World

One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.

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Origin of Curator

  • Middle English curatour legal guardian from Old French curateur from Latin cūrātor overseer from cūrātus past participle of cūrāre to take care of curative

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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”).

    From Wiktionary

Curator Sentence Examples

  • He was finally appointed assistant curator in the department of printed books.

  • In the same year Rainer became curator of the Academy of Sciences, a position which he filled till his death.

  • I wonder how long I would survive without the museum curator.

  • He was also a member of the Academy, and of the Academy of Moral and Political Science, and curator of the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre (from 1870).

  • He was also a curator of the Bodleian Library, an honorary fellow of Queen's College, a governor of Winchester College and a visitor of Greenwich Observatory.

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