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English

Etymology

Curator is originally Latin and means guardian or overseer.

Noun

  1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection - at a museum, library, archive or zoo.


Derived terms


Translations

io:curator id:curator pl:curator ru:curator ta:curator te:curator vi:curator zh:curator

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Curator \Cu*ra"tor\ (k?-r?"t?r). n. [L., fr. curare to take care
of, fr. cura care.]
1. One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as
of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
[1913 Webster]

2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet curator
n : the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn:
conservator]
Moby Dictionary
MC , accountant , air warden , attendant , attorney , auditor , bailiff ,
bibliognost , bibliographer , biblioklept , bibliolater , bibliomane ,
bibliomaniac , bibliopegist , bibliophage , bibliophile , bibliopole ,
bibliopolist , bibliotaph , bibliothec , bibliothecaire ,
bibliothecary , book agent , book collector , book printer ,
book publisher , book salesman , book-stealer , bookbinder ,
bookdealer , bookkeeper , booklover , bookmaker , bookman , bookseller ,
bookworm , bursar , butler , caretaker , cashier , cashkeeper ,
castellan , cataloger , chamberlain , chief librarian , college editor ,
comptroller , conservator , controller , copy editor , croupier ,
custodian , depositary , depository , dictionary editor , editor ,
editor-in-chief , emcee , executive editor , factor ,
financial officer , forest ranger , game warden , gamekeeper ,
governor , guardian , guardian angel , housekeeper , janitor ,
juvenile editor , keeper , landreeve , librarian , library director ,
lifeguard , lifesaver , liquidator , majordomo , managing editor ,
master of ceremonies , next friend , paymaster , permissions editor ,
philobiblist , printer , prochein ami , proctor , procurator ,
production editor , publisher , purse bearer , purser , ranger ,
receiver , reference editor , reference librarian , seneschal ,
shepherd , steward , textbook editor , trade editor , treasurer ,
trustee , warden , warder


CURATOR, persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself. 2. There are curators ad bona, of property, who administer the estate of a minor, take care of his person, and intervene in all his contracts; curators ad litem, of suits, who assist the minor in courts of justice, and act as curator ad bona in cases where the interests of the curator are opposed to the interests of the minor. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 357 to 366. There are also curators of insane persons Id. art. 31; and of vacant successions and absent heirs. Id. art. 1105 to 1125. 3. The term curator is usually employed in the civil law, for that of guardian.
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