conservatory
part of speech
noun (a conservatory, conservatories)
meaning for a pupil
1) A room with glass walls and a glass roof, built onto a house, where people sit in the sun and grow plants. tree →
2) A large glass building in a park or garden for growing tender plants; a big greenhouse. tree →
3) (also conservatoire) A school or college for training musicians, singers or actors. tree →
sense 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 →
- The conservatory was full of orange trees and ferns. tree →
- It gets very hot in the conservatory in summer. tree →
- My piano teacher trained at a famous music conservatory. tree →
- The botanical gardens have a huge Victorian conservatory. tree →
- Dad grows chillies in the conservatory because it's warm there. tree →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «conservatory» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.