different between preacher vs curate

English

Etymology

From Middle English precher, prechere; partly equivalent to preach +? -er, and partly continuing Middle English prechour, prechiour, from Old French preecheor (French prêcheur), from Latin praedicator (“public praiser, proclaimer”). See preach.

Displaced native Old English bydel.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?it???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?i?t???/
• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
• Hyphenation: preach?er

Noun

preacher (plural preachers)

1. Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel; a clergyman or clergywoman.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 10:

     The born preacher we feel instinctively to be our foe. He may do some good to the wretches that have been struck down and lie gasping on the battlefield: he rouses antagonism in the strong.

Derived terms

• preacher bench
• preacher curl
• preacheress

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin c?r?tus, from Latin c?r?. Doublet of curato and curé.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kj????t/, /-??t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /?kj???t/

Noun

curate (plural curates)

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.

Derived terms

• curate's egg

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from curator.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj????e?t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o-r?t?, kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /kj???e?t/, /?kj??e?t/

Verb

curate (third-person singular simple present curates, present participle curating, simple past and past participle curated)

1. (transitive) To act as a curator for.

   She curated the traveling exhibition.

   They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.

2. (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
3. (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.

   Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.

Derived terms

• curated

Translations

See also

• curate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acture, acuter, cauter

Italian

Verb

curate

1. inflection of curare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• teucra

Latin

Verb

c?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?r?

References

• curate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette