conservatory

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin cōnservātōrius directly and via French conservatoire, from cōnservāre (“to conserve, to preserve”) + -torius (“-atory: forming related adjectives”) and/or conservator (“conservator, preserver, protector”) + -ius (“-y: forming related adjectives”).

Adjective

conservatory (comparative more conservatory, superlative most conservatory)

1. Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
2. (rare) Relating to conservation.

Translations

having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury

• French: conservatoire (fr)
• German: konservatorisch
• Italian: conservatorio (it)
• Latin: conservatorius (New Latin)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin cōnservātōrium directly and via French conservatoire and Italian conservatorio, from cōnservātus (“conserved, preserved”) + -ōrium (“-ory: forming related nouns”).

Noun

conservatory (plural conservatories)

1. (obsolete) A medicine, especially a magical preservative.
   • 1563, John Jewel, The Seconde Tome of Homelyes..., sig. IIII.i.v:

     The auncient Catholyke fathers... were not afrayde to call this Supper... the foode of immortalitie... and the conseruatory to euerlastyng lyfe.

   • 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Vnum Necessarium, page 371:

     ...a tree appointed to be the cure of diseases and a conservatory of life...

2. (chiefly historical Italian contexts) A school or clinic for orphans.
3. (now chiefly US) A music school.
4. (now rare) A storehouse, a repository.
5. (obsolete) An icehouse, a warehouse for ice.
6. (obsolete) A cistern, an artificially collected body of water.
7. (obsolete) A reservoir, an artificially maintained body of water.
8. (now uncommon) A greenhouse, a glass-walled building for cultivating delicate plants.

   Synonyms: greenhouse, hothouse, orangery, planthouse

9. (chiefly UK, Ireland) A solarium, a glass-walled and glass-roofed room in a house.

   Synonyms: sunroom, solarium, Florida room

   • 1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:

     Joyce Barnaby: It's a lovely cottage in Badger's Drift. It's got two bedrooms, two living rooms and a conservatory.
     DCI Tom Barnaby: Conservatory? Sounds like something out of Cluedo.
     Cully Barnaby: Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the conservatory.

10. A drama school. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Synonyms

• (music school): See music school
• (drama school): academy of drama, drama school, theater school, theatre school

Derived terms

• conservatorylike

Translations

a greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants

• Bulgarian: оранже́рия f (oranžérija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫室 / 温室 (zh) (wēnshì)

• Czech: skleník (cs) m, zimní zahrada (cs) f
• Esperanto: forcejo, oranĝerio (eo)
• Finnish: talvipuutarha (fi)
• French: serre (fr) f
• German: Wintergarten (de) m, Gewächshaus (de) n, Pflanzenschauhaus n
• Japanese: 温室 (ja) (おんしつ, onshitsu)
• Korean: 온실(溫室) (ko) (onsil)
• Latin: conservatorium n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vinterhage (no) m

• Russian: оранжере́я (ru) f (oranžeréja), тепли́ца (ru) f (teplíca)
• Slovak: skleník m
• Swedish: växthus (sv) n, vinterträdgård c, orangeri (sv) n (trees)
• Turkish: limonluk (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: لیمونلق (limonluk)

a glass-walled and -roofed room in a house — see also sunroom,‎ solarium

• Bulgarian: зимна градина f (zimna gradina)
• Czech: zimní zahrada (cs) f, veranda f
• Dutch: serre (nl) f
• French: véranda (fr) f
• German: Wintergarten (de) m
• Latin: conservatorium n
• Russian: зи́мний сад (zímnij sad)

school of music or drama — see also music school

• Armenian: կոնսերվատորիա (hy) (konservatoria)
• Belarusian: кансервато́рыя f (kansjervatóryja), кансэрвато́рыя f (kanservatóryja)
• Bulgarian: консервато́рия f (konservatórija)
• Catalan: conservatori (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音樂學校 / 音乐学校 (yīnyuè xuéxiào)

• Czech: konzervatoř (cs) f
• Danish: konservatorium n, musikkonservatorium (da) n
• Dutch: conservatorium (nl) n
• Esperanto: konservatorio
• Finnish: konservatorio (fi)
• French: conservatoire (fr) m, école de musique (fr) f, école supérieure de musique f, académie de musique f (Belgium) école d'art dramatique f, école de théâtre f, école supérieure de théâtre f
• German: Konservatorium (de) n (music), Musikkonservatorium n, Musikakademie f, Musikhochschule (de) f, Hochschule für Musik f, Musikschule (de) f, höhere Musikschule f, Schauspielschule (de) f (drama), Schule für Schauspiel f, Schauspielakademie f, Akademie für Schauspielkunst f, Theaterschule f, Theaterfachschule f, Schule des Theaters f, Theaterakademie f
• Greek: ωδείο (el) (odeío)
• Hungarian: konzervatórium (hu)
• Ido: konservatorio (io)
• Italian: conservatorio (it) m
• Japanese: コンサーヴァトーリ (konsāvatōri), 音楽学校 (おんがくがっこう, ongaku gakkō)
• Korean: 음악학교(音樂學校) (eumakhakgyo)
• Latin: conservatorium n
• Polish: konserwatorium (pl) n
• Portuguese: conservatório (pt) m
• Russian: консервато́рия (ru) f (konservatórija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конзерваторијум m

  Latin: konzervatorijum m

• Slovak: konzervatórium n
• Spanish: conservatorio (es) m
• Swedish: konservatorium (sv) n
• Tagalog: konserbatoryo
• Ukrainian: консервато́рія f (konservatórija)
• Volapük: musigakadäm (vo) (music)
• Yiddish: קאָנסערוואַטאָריע f (konservatorye)