conservative
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
Other meanings
One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative.
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "cōnservō" (to preserve).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “conservative” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.