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Grammar : Noun
Spell : verb kuhn-surv; noun kon-surv, kuhn-surv
Phonetic Transcription : verb kənˈsɜrv; noun ˈkɒn sɜrv, kənˈsɜrv



Definition of conserver

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French conserver (9c.), from Latin conservare "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + servare "keep watch, maintain" (see observe). Related: Conserved; conserving. As a noun (often conserves) from late 14c.
  • As in right-winger : noun conservative
  • As in rightist : noun conservative
  • As in traditionalist : noun conservative
  • As in conservative : noun person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
Example sentences :
  • The church has been the conserver and propagator of spiritual force.
  • Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe
  • The cirque, therefore, is at once the product of the glacier and its generator and conserver.
  • Extract from : « Mount Rainier » by Various
  • A fish-feeder, he was born to be a conserver as well as a destroyer of the creatures on which he fed.
  • Extract from : « Kazan » by James Oliver Curwood
  • He is, in reality, a conserver of all that is valuable in old methods.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Management » by L. M. Gilbreth
  • A theory of evolution, however, resting on these principles cannot dispense with a Creator and Conserver of the world and of life.
  • Extract from : « At the Deathbed of Darwinism » by Eberhard Dennert
  • And from whom did Tolstoy learn more than from that conserver of the pristine and dominating Russian traits, the moujik?
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
  • Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor,—that was the point.
  • Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo

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