preservation
pronunciation
How to pronounce preservation in British English:
UK [ˌprezəˈveɪʃn]
How to pronounce preservation in American English:
US [ˌprezərˈveɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- the condition of being (well or ill) preserved
- a process that saves organic substances from decay
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
Word Origin
- preservation (n.)
- early 15c., preservacioun "protection from disease," from Old French preservacion (13c.), from Medieval Latin preservationem (nominative preservatio), noun of action from past participle stem of preservare (see preserve (v.)).
Example
- 1. Fifty-five houses were recently repaired under a dutch-funded preservation project .
- 2. Long-term preservation of organic compounds requires special conditions .
- 3. Creation and preservation of jobs and increasing capital flows are the appropriate priorities .
- 4. Chinese statements thus far have predictably urged calm and the preservation of stability .
- 5. She got into pet preservation because of her own cat , naomi .