noun. One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.

noun. In Scotch law, one appointed as guardian for minors, incompetents, etc.

noun. In Roman law, one appointed to manage the affairs of a person past the age of puberty when from any cause he has become unfit to manage them himself.

noun. In civil law, a guardian; specifically, one who has the care of the estate of a minor or other incompetent person.

noun. One who has the care and superintendence of something, as of a public museum, fine-art collection, or the like.

noun. One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

noun. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

noun. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

noun. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.

noun. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

""These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date," OED said in an online statement, describing itself as a word curator that had always "sought primarily to cover the language of its own time.""

curator ad hoc  curator bonis  custodian  keeper  manager  

curate  curated  curatorial  curatory  cure  

custodian  keeper  steward  

Crater  Creator  Decatur  Equator  Lemaitre  

administrator  adviser  architect  archivist  auditor  

MC  accountant  air warden  attendant  attorney