Other forms: conservatories
A conservatory is a glass room built onto a house, originally for plants. Sit in the conservatory, build a conservatory, the conservatory is freezing.
In British houses it is now a living room rather than a greenhouse, and the standing joke is that it is unusable in both summer and winter. Orangery is the grander historical version. In music, a conservatory or conservatoire is a specialist college — the Royal Conservatoire, the Paris Conservatoire — where the word means a place that conserves a tradition.
1nounconservatoryA glass room built onto a house.
“The conservatory is unusable for about five months of the year.”
2nounspecialistA specialist college of music.
“She won a place at a famous conservatory to study the violin.”
conservatory is a glass room or music college.
Latin conservare means to keep or preserve. A conservatory preserved tender plants through the winter, and the Italian conservatorio was originally an orphanage that preserved children — and taught them music, which is how the musical sense arose.
French
conservatoire
ML.
cōnservātōrius
English, today
conservatory
Built from
From ML. cōnservātōrius directly and via French conservatoire, from conservo (“to conserve, to preserve”) + -torius (“-atory: forming related adjectives”) and/or conservator (“conservator, preserver, protector”) + -ius (“-y: forming related adjectives”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA