preservation
The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
Other meanings
The state of being preserved, how something has survived.
Related words
- preservationist
- biopreservation
- chemopreservation
- copreservation
- cryopreservation
- depreservation
- lyopreservation
- neuropreservation
- nonpreservation
- preservational
- preservationism
- self-preservation
Example sentences
Word history
From Medieval Latin "preservatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “preservation” 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.