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# conservatory

noun (a conservatory, conservatories)

«conservatory» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A room with glass walls and a glass roof, built onto a house, where people sit in the sun and grow plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#m1)
2. A large glass building in a park or garden for growing tender plants; a big greenhouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#m2)
3. (also conservatoire) A school or college for training musicians, singers or actors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#m3)

### In the lessons

Many British, Irish and Australian homes have a conservatory at the back. In big old houses like Toad Hall a conservatory held palms, ferns and exotic flowers. In science, a conservatory works like a greenhouse: sunlight comes in through the glass and warms the air, which keeps plants growing. In the music sense: a gifted violinist may study at a conservatory.

### Examples

- We have breakfast in the conservatory when it's sunny. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x1)
- The conservatory was full of orange trees and ferns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x2)
- It gets very hot in the conservatory in summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x3)
- My piano teacher trained at a famous music conservatory. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x4)
- The botanical gardens have a huge Victorian conservatory. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x5)
- Dad grows chillies in the conservatory because it's warm there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/#x6)

### Note

Countable; plural «conservatories» (y → ies). Not the same as «conservative» or «conservation». In the USA the music sense is more common; in the UK the glass-room sense.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «conservatory» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conservatory/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«conservatory» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/conservatory.html) on Mova free.