curate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An assistant barman.

   ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.

2. 2
   verb

   To act as a curator for.

   She curated the traveling exhibition.

3. 3
   verb

   To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

   What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.

4. 4
   verb

   To work or act as a curator.

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

5. 5
   noun

   a person authorized to conduct religious worship

6. 6
   noun

   An assistant rector or vicar.

7. 7
   noun

   A parish priest.

8. 8
   noun

   An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus (“one who has been curated, a curate”), a substantivation of the perfect passive participle of cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-forming suffix).