Restorer vs Conservator - What's the difference?
restorer | conservator |
One who restores.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
* Derham
(legal) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
* Clarendon
* Bouvier
An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
(Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
As nouns the difference between restorer and conservator
is that restorer is one who restores while conservator is one who conserves, preserves or protects something.restorer
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Noun
(en noun)- Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
conservator
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Alternative forms
* conservatour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator , has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
- the great Creator and Conservator of the world
- The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
- the conservator of the estate of an idiot
