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custodian

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English

Etymology

From a shortening of Latin custōdiānātus, from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”). By surface analysis, custody +‎ -ian.

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Noun

custodian (plural custodians)

  1. A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
    After their parents' death, their aunt became the children's custodian.
    The building's custodian could fix nearly anything. The place always looked great!
    • 1947, David Saavedra, Go South Young Man, page 80:
      The middle class is the. demitone of human society, custodian of the balance, and no fair social order could exist without the cooperation of this class.
    • 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times‎:
      Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.
  2. An administrator.
  3. A goalkeeper.
  4. A protector or guard.
  5. (US, Canada) A janitor; a cleaner.

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Verb

custodian

  1. third-person plural present indicative of custodiar

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