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conservatory

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conservatory may refer to: Conservatory (greenhouse) , a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including municipal ones and including attached residential solariums Music school , or a school devoted to other arts such as dance Sunroom ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatoire ] a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: hothouse , indoor garden ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "preservative;" 1660s, "greenhouse," from stem of conservation + -ory . In sense "school for performing arts" it is recorded from 1842, from Italian conservatorio or French conservatoire , originally "hospital for foundlings in which musical education ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the National Conservatory of Music EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As in the first pavilion, the conservatory recedes into the background and the rain forest embraces visitors. ▪ As usual we had breakfast in the conservatory . ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 (context rare English) pertaining to conservation 2 Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury. n. (context obsolete English) That which preserves from injury. Etymology 2 n. 1 A greenhouse or hothouse for the display ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservatory \Con*serv"a*to*ry\, n. [Cf. F. conservatoire, LL. conservatorium.] That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] ``A conservatory of life.'' --Jer. Taylor. A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, ...

Usage examples of conservatory.

A twenty-year-old stood on Huntington Ave outside the conservatory, waiting for the Arborway back to his chill flat in Jamaica Plain.

As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.

She had just lowered the gasolier when she looked up and found Ivan watching her from the conservatory.

Most of these afflicted pilgrims to the London conservatory were engaged upon the business of the Goddess richly inspiring the Heliconian choir, but rendering the fountain-waters heady.

The little daughters of the fur-traders, the government officials, the station masters, wheeltappers and platelayers will flock to the conservatory, and, besides, what untold talent might not be discovered amongst the children of the native Siberian peasants themselves?

The morning light poured through the conservatory windows, illuminating the spectacular spray of Plumeria rubra that Victoria was endeavoring to capture with her watercolors.

She went through the conservatory, where the warm whiteness of azalia, and spirea, and arum lilies contrasted curiously with the cold white snow out of doors, to the hall, where a stranger was standing talking to the butler.

Victoria stood looking around the lush conservatory for a moment and then her eyes fell on the glorious blooms of Strelitzia reginae.

Hilary, it transpired, owned the ground floor, a matter of two large high-ceilinged rooms, modern kitchen, functional bathroom, and a pleasant old-fashioned conservatory with plants, cane armchairs, and steps down to an unkempt garden.

The door of the long conservatories were open, and so the air was redolent of sweetness almost intoxicating.

Once there was a gazebo, and a walled kitchen garden, and several plots of ornamentals, and a lily pond with goldfish in it, and a steam-heated glass conservatory, demolished now, that grew ferns and fuschias and the occasional spindly lemon and sour orange.

Mary Hampton, as she crossed over to the conservatory to give her macaws their usual tribute from the dessert dishes.

Laura wanted us to climb up on the sphinxes beside the conservatory, but I said no.

He explained how Elder Ampris, superior to Lars Dahl, student in the Conservatory and as a ruling Elder of the Optherian Council, had approached him, citing the dilemma about Killashandra's true identity and the request to wound her, resolving the quandary.

She had credentials of sufficiently high caliber to gain entrance into the Federal Music Conservatory on Optheria where she hoped she'd be allowed to play on an Optherian organ.