conservatory

Main Entry:
conservatory [kuhn-sur-vuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: greenhouse
Synonyms: cold frame, glasshouse, hot house, nursery
Main Entry: institute/institution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization, usually educational
Synonyms: academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, orphanage, school, seminar, seminary, society, system, think tank, university
Main Entry: store
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: place for keeping supply
Synonyms: arsenal, bank, barn, box, cache, conservatory, depository, depot, magazine, pantry, repository, reservoir, stable, storehouse, storeroom, tank, treasury, vault, warehouse
Notes: at first, shop designated a small retail establishment and store was applied only to a large establishment; now the differences are blurred
Main Entry: greenhouse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hothouse
Synonyms: arboretum, conservatory, coolhouse, glasshouse, nursery, planthouse, potting shed
Main Entry: institution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization
Synonyms: academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, institute, institution, orphanage, school, seminar, seminary, society, system, university
Main Entry: sun parlor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: room for sunning
Synonyms: conservatory, lounge, solarium, sun lounge, sunporch, sunroom
Main Entry: preservative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: saving
Synonyms: conservative, conservatory, defensive, precautionary, protective, safeguarding
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Store.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience
Synonyms:
-nouns
stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow., stock in trade, supply; heap (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche., crop, harvest, mow, vintage., store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay (provision)., storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie., reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer., budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer (receptacle)., conservation; storing; storage.
-verbs
store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save., reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources., deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store.
-adjectives
keep, file [papers]; lay in (provide) [more]; preserve., stored ; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.
-phrases
adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
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