CURATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curator mean? 

• CURATOR (noun)
  The noun CURATOR has 1 sense:

1. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

  Familiarity information: CURATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

conservator; curator

Hypernyms ("curator" is a kind of...):

custodian; keeper; steward (one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals)

Derivation:

curatorial (of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator)

curatorship (the position of curator)

 Context examples 

Design notes are notations made by NCI vocabulary curators.

(DesignNote, NCI Thesaurus)

The late Alan J. Charig, then-curator of fossil reptiles, amphibians and birds at the Natural History Museum of London, was the first to study those original specimens in the 1950s.

(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)

"This is a game changer in our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago)," said Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)

If you are an architect, historian, a dealer in rare letters and autographs, a museum curator, or archeologist, this month will find you winning your glory and making exceptional progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Changes in the timing of spring leaves and flowers could set off a cascade of effects, threatening species' wellbeing, disrupting agriculture and potentially causing longer or more severe allergy seasons, said Robert Guralnick, the study's senior author and curator of informatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

(Urbanization delays spring plant growth in warm regions, National Science Foundation)

In a study, an international team of researchers that included the University of Colorado Boulder's Paola Villa, corresponding author of the study and an adjoint curator at the university's Museum of Natural History, reports findings that Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees, which they used to glue stone tools to handles made of wood or bone.

(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)

Capricorn also rules historical material, so if you are an archeologist, a museum curator of historical objects, or a producer on the History Channel or are working on a movie with a historical theme, you will be exceptionally busy.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The upside of the Sun conjunct Neptune is that if you work in the arts—perhaps as an actor, artist, photographer, musician, director of an art gallery or curator of a museum, or any of the many other jobs that deal in the creative or cultural arts—you may conclude an agreement for a large sale within four days of this full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)