Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that has charge of something; a caretaker.
- noun A janitor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has the care or custody of anything, as of a library, a public building, a lunatic, etc.; a keeper or guardian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person entrusted with the
custody orcare of something or someone; acaretaker orkeeper . - noun US a
janitor (US); acleaner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
Etymologies
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Examples
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The radium custodian is mentioned in the title story, which is set in in the
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So an order binding on a parent or custodian is not out of line or even remarkable.
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That document, which also belongs to the Mexican Government with you as a custodian, is proof of your identity and also proof of your permit to remain here as a foreigner.
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That document, which also belongs to the Mexican Government with you as a custodian, is proof of your identity and also proof of your permit to remain here as a foreigner.
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That document, which also belongs to the Mexican Government with you as a custodian, is proof of your identity and also proof of your permit to remain here as a foreigner.
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A resident INAH custodian is on hand, whenever the church is open, to switch on the soft lighting artfully positioned so as to reveal most of the incredible details of the paintings.
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A resident INAH custodian is on hand, whenever the church is open, to switch on the soft lighting artfully positioned so as to reveal most of the incredible details of the paintings.
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That document, which also belongs to the Mexican Government with you as a custodian, is proof of your identity and also proof of your permit to remain here as a foreigner.
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The custodian is also prepared to provide some explanation (in Spanish) of both the techniques used and the subject matter chosen by those enterprising indigenous eighteenth century "Michelangelos" of the New World.
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The custodian is also prepared to provide some explanation (in Spanish) of both the techniques used and the subject matter chosen by those enterprising indigenous eighteenth century "Michelangelos" of the New World.
shanvrolijk commented on the word custodian
When Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas negotiated a solution for Jerusalem, they assumed a capital for each state, a Palestinian one in East Jerusalem and a Jewish one in the West, but a common municipal administration, and a new international committee, in which they would jointly participate, to act as custodian of the “Holy Basin,” in effect, the whole of the Old City. What are these—the municipality and the custodian—if not confederal institutions?
February 9, 2018