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Definition of Preserver
1. Noun. A skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture.
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Refinish, Renovate, Restore
2. Noun. A cook who preserves fruits or meat.
3. Noun. Someone who keeps safe from harm or danger.
Specialized synonyms: Defender, Guardian, Protector, Shielder
Derivative terms: Preserve
4. Noun. Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.
Generic synonyms: Float, Rescue Equipment
Specialized synonyms: Life Belt, Life Buoy, Life Ring, Lifesaver, Cork Jacket, Life Jacket, Life Vest, Water Wings
Definition of Preserver
1. 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.
Definition of Preserver
1. Noun. One who preserves. ¹
2. Noun. A life preserver ¹
3. Noun. A person who refinishes furniture. ¹
4. Noun. A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preserver
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preserver
Literary usage of Preserver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"P-SENT-N, " the defender "or " preserver of." The word SENT does not appear to
be used except as a divine, and, under the Ptolemies, regal title, ..."
2. Mechanics Magazine (1827)
"NEW EFFECTUAL AND CHEAP MARINE LIFE-preserver SIR,—In number 152 of your valuable
work, you have copied from the Liverpool Mercury, an account of a new ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"P-SENT-N," the defender "or" preserver of.* The word SENT does not appear to be
used except as a divine, and, under the Ptolemies, regal title, ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"New Repub 1:12-14 D 19 '14 Life-preservers Combination traveling-bag and
life-preserver, il Sci Am 113:276 S 25 '15 Life-saving sult-case, 11 Ind 83:396 S ..."
5. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1844)
"C. A NEW LIFE-preserver. Our friend, Dr. LH Mosby, has invented a life-preserver
which strikes us as superior to anything of the sort ever yet proposed. ..."
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