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preservationist

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — preserve sits at #3,474Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: preservationists

A preservationist is somebody who campaigns to keep old buildings or ways. A determined preservationist.

The word is used approvingly by allies and dismissively by developers. A preservationist has to win every time and a developer only once.

Definitions of preservationist

  1. 1nounpreservationistSomebody who campaigns to keep old buildings or ways.C2

    “One preservationist saved the terrace by finding a single document.”

preservationist is a person.

Where it comes from

  1. Medieval Latin

    preservatio

  2. Old French

    preservacion

  3. English

    preservation

  4. English, today

    preservationist

From preservation + -ist. preservation comes from Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio. Morphologically preserve + ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

preservationist in the wild

  • The goal of a preservationist was to create a durable copy without any significant loss of quality.

    Film preservation

  • David Haspel Shepard was an American film preservationist whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high-quality video versions of silent films.

    David Shepard (film preservationist)

  • Preservationist is generally understood to mean historic preservationist: one who advocates to preserve architecturally or historically significant buildings, structures, objects, or sites from demolition or degradation.

    Preservationist

  • James Hunter Blair was a noted Scottish historic preservationist, landowner and forester.

    James Hunter Blair (preservationist)

  • Eric DeLony served as chief of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) from 1971 to 2003 and was a noted historic preservationist.

    Eric DeLony

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the preservatio family

preservation

preservationist — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

  • preserve