conservatory
Other forms: conservatories
A conservatory is a place to grow. It could be one of those glass greenhouses where rare and delicate plants can thrive. Or it could be a place to grow your artistic talent — like a music conservatory.
A conservatory can conserve more than just plants; it can conserve culture, too. And so we have the conservatory as a school for the fine arts, in particular ballet and classical music — often known by their fancy French title, conservatoire. The word comes from the Latin word conservare, meaning "to preserve."
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a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine artssynonyms: conservatoire
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the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine artstypes:type of:schoolan educational institution
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a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing mannersynonyms: hothouse, indoor gardentype of:glasshouse, greenhouse, nurserya building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions
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