different between conservation vs conservationist

English

Etymology

From Old French.Surface analysis conserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ns?(?)?ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
2. Wise use of natural resources.
3. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
4. (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
5. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
6. (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Derived terms

• anticonservation
• anticonservationist
• conservational
• conservation law

Translations

Anagrams

• conversation, nanovortices

French

Etymology

From Latin conservatio.

Pronunciation

Noun

conservation f (plural conservations)

1. conservation

Derived terms

• loi de conservation
• loi de conservation de l'énergie

Further reading

• “conservation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• conversation

English

Etymology

conservation +? -ist

Noun

conservationist (plural conservationists)

1. A person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species.
2. Someone who advocates for these actions.

Translations

See also

• environmentalist

Anagrams

• conversationist