curator

Meaning

1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
4. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
5. A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

Synonyms

guardian

conservator

keeper

steward

director

manager

superintendent

custodian

organizer

overseer

planner

principal

regent

wielder

chief librarian

art director

museum officer

boss

conductor

dean

executive

fiduciary

institute

intendant

Translations

conservateur

Kurator

conservador

curateur

conservatrice

curatore

conservator

conservador

curator

έφορος

curador

Museumsdirektor

Kustos

conservatore

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrāre (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).