Preserver
[prɪ'zɝvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger.
(noun.) a cook who preserves fruits or meat.
Checked by Eugene--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.
(n.) One who makes preserves of fruit.
Checker: Zelig
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Saviour, protector, defender, guardian.[2]. Preservative, means of preservation.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- Here, on the night when the shrine was completed, Vishnu the Preserver appeared to the three Brahmins in a dream. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was our captain to lead us from our native soil to unknown lands, our lawgiver and our preserver. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He said he was very thirsty, and asked his generous preserver to get him a cup of water. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Pickwick-- deepest obligations--life preserver--made a man of me--you shall never repent it, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My cherished preserver, goodnight! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The p riests were the preservers of such wisdom as had been accumulated in the course of man's immemorial struggle with the forces of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Popes have long been the patrons and preservers of art, just as our new, practical Republic is the encourager and upholder of mechanics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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