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1 —as in:
music conservatory
Definition
a school specializing in one of the fine arts — especially music, dance, or drama- Juilliard is a performing arts conservatory.
conservatory = a school specializing in one of the fine arts — especially music, dance, or drama
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She attends the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts.
- Word was received early this morning that a student on the Moscow Conservatory's goodwill tour has gone missing in Paris.Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Only then did I understand where the shame had come from: it wasn't that I hadn't studied in a marble conservatory, or that my father wasn't a diplomat.Tara Westover -- Educated
- Unlike him, she was very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year...Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- "Just like band camp," she joked, though my summer conservatory program is nothing like American Pie.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- A student from the Moscow Conservatory?Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
- All she had was the elegant pair of high-heeled pumps that Anna had helped pick out for the Conservatory competition the year before.Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
- The Conservatory's orchestra performed Dvorak's concerto in just over thirty minutes.Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
- But even if there were one, with just sixteen days until the Conservatory's tour, the Count was simply out of time.Amor Towles -- A Gentleman in Moscow
conservatory = a school specializing in one of the fine arts
conservatory = a school for music
conservatory = school specializing in one of the fine arts
conservatory = school for music
conservatory = music school
conservatory = music school
conservatory = music school
conservatory = music school
conservatory = music school
2 —as in:
plants in the conservatory
Definition
a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner- We visited the New York Botanical Garden Conservatory.
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We'll have lunch in the conservatory.
- The farther room was a glass conservatory full of tropical blossoms of quite unique and almost monstrous beauty, and on such afternoons as these glowing with gorgeous sunlight.Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Innocence Of Father Brown
- We visited a butterfly conservatory.
- But you must not go till you have seen the conservatory, my aunt's winter garden,Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- I shall be in the conservatory under the second palm tree on the left.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- The grounds were derelict, the gardens overgrown; the conservatory was a wreck, with broken panes of glass and desiccated plants, still in their pots.Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
- We were in a kind of sun porch and conservatory combined, spacious and damp and without many plants.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- I shall be in the conservatory under the second palm tree on the left.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- I was all alone, or so it seemed at first, in the ruined glass conservatory at Avilion.Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a room where plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
conservatory = a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
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