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curator

curator

79 6.1
A person who cares for and organizes collections in a museum or library
  • noun
  • /kjʊˈreɪtər/
translation icon : conservador
  • Every summer, the curator arranges educational tours to explain the history of the museum's collection.
  • a museum curator
  • an art curator
  • curators and collectors

So we have a system in this country of curators.

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Examples

  • The curator of the art museum organized a special exhibition for the community.

  • Dr. Arnold Johnson is curator of the New York Museum for Natural History and an esteemed authority on prehistoric animals.

  • Before we get started, we do have a message from our curator, Harry.

  • And so she actually made a design together with the curator of the missing scene.

  • We have an appointment with the curator tomorrow afternoon.

  • Said he was meeting some wealthy museum curator from overseas.

  • So the curator said, look, this, this needs new riveting.

  • Our next guest is a historian, author, educator, curator, and museum leader.

  • She had been raised by a kindly old museum curator.

  • Jack Maguire, one of our senior curators, waved for me to come to him.

    Fiction book (1999)

Compounds

A person who helps organise and choose items for an exhibition or collection with another person

How Senior

head
2.2
curator
79 6.1
zoo keeper
1 2.0
volunteer
7 3.5

Surface Forms

curator singular
curators plural

Morphology

curator = curate (transparent) = curate + or

Formed by the verb 'curate' plus the agentive suffix '-or', producing a person who cares for or selects items; the relation is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word curator comes from the Latin curare, which means 'to take care'. A museum curator is literally someone who looks after a collection, caring for objects and deciding how to show them.