conservatory
pronunciation
How to pronounce conservatory in British English:
UK [kənˈsɜːvətri]
How to pronounce conservatory in American English:
US [kənˈsɜːrvətɔːri]
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- Noun:
- the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts
- a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
- a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Word Origin
- conservatory (n.)
- 1560s, "preservative;" 1660s, "greenhouse," from stem of conservation + -ory. In sense "school for performing arts" it is recorded from 1842, from Italian conservatorio or French conservatoire, originally "hospital for foundlings in which musical education was given."
Example
- 1. The whole school is like one class of the ( beijing ) conservatory .
- 2. In the conservatory you used to have five or six people fighting over a little , stupid upright piano .
- 3. Time to take cuttings : the chinese hibiscus is a tropical shrub that needs to be kept in a conservatory pot or bed , and grown in bright , filtered light .
- 4. Erika kohut , a piano teacher at the vienna conservatory , has spent her entire life under the close watch of a domineering mother , to whom she owes her artistic success , but also a disturbed inner life .