Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conservation

/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.33 in modern English

Syllables
con-ser-va-tion
IPA
/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Wise use of natural resources.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts

Countable; Uncountable

noun

lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

conservations (plural)

Derived Forms

anticonservation anticonservationist conservational conservationism conservationist cryoconservation geoconservation hyperconservation microconservation neuroconservation nonconservation proconservation

Phrases

conservation biology conservation law conservation of energy conservation of mass law of conservation of mass soil conservation

Synonyms

preservation

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization nation location application

Questions

How do you pronounce conservation?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/.
What does conservation mean?
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Where does conservation come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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