Curator
//kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)// noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
"The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in."
- 2 the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) wordnet
- 3 One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
- 4 A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
- 5 A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
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- 6 A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.
Example
More examples"The museum curator wanted the Egyptian painting to be sandwiched between two pieces of thick acrylic glass."
Etymology
From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrāre (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).
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