PRESERVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preserver mean? 

• PRESERVER (noun)
  The noun PRESERVER has 4 senses:

1. a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture

2. a cook who preserves fruits or meat

3. someone who keeps safe from harm or danger

4. rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning

  Familiarity information: PRESERVER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESERVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

preserver; refinisher; renovator; restorer

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

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cook who preserves fruits or meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

cook (someone who cooks food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preserver"):

salter (someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods)

Derivation:

preserve (prevent (food) from rotting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who keeps safe from harm or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preserver"):

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)

Derivation:

preserve (maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flotation device; life preserver; preserver

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

float (something that floats on the surface of water)

rescue equipment (equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preserver"):

life belt; life buoy; life ring; lifesaver (a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material)

cork jacket; life jacket; life vest (life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design)

water wings (a life preserver consisting of a connected pair of inflatable bags that fit under a person's arms and provide buoyancy; used by children learning to swim)

 Context examples 

I remembered the life-preservers stored in the cabin, but was met at the door and swept backward by a wild rush of men and women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I turned to thank my preserver, who stood beside me in the roadway.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Marianne's preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, styled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal enquiries.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He glanced at Ruth for reassurance, much in the same manner that a passenger, with sudden panic thought of possible shipwreck, will strive to locate the life preservers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A passing thought occurred to me that Miss Murdstone, like the pocket instrument called a life-preserver, was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper—Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My cherished preserver, goodnight!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)