curate
/ˈkjʊɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.03 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
verb
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "‘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."
- "She curated the traveling exhibition."
- "They carefully curated the recovered artifacts."
- "What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television."
- "During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life."
- "To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment."
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. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kʷeys-, cūrātus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkjʊɹɪt/
- British English: /ˈkjʊəɹət/