Noun
custodian (plural custodians)
- 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.
- An administrator.
- A goalkeeper.
- A protector or guard.
- (US, Canada) A janitor; a cleaner.
Translations
a person entrusted with the custody or care
- Azerbaijani: qəyyum
- Bulgarian: попечи́тел (bg) m (popečítel), попечи́телка f (popečítelka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 監護人 / 监护人 (zh) (jiānhùrén)
- Danish: formynder c (archaic), værge c
- Dutch: bewaarder (nl) m, voogd (nl) m, beheerder (nl) m
- Finnish: huoltaja (fi)
- French: gardien (fr) m, gardienne (fr) f
- German: Hüter (de) m, Hüterin (de) f, Kustos (de) m, Schützer (de) m, Schützerin (de) f, Vormund (de) m, Hausverwalter (de) m, Hausverwalterin (de) f, Hausmeister (de) m
- Indonesian: wali (id)
- Italian: custode (it)
- Japanese: 保管人 (ほかんにん, hokannin)
- Korean: 보관인(保管人) (bogwanin)
- Latin: curator (la) m, curatrix f
- Macedonian: ста́рател m (stáratel), стара́телка f (starátelka), на́стојник m (nástojnik), насто́јница f (nastójnica)
- Portuguese: guardião (pt) m (of a person), zelador (pt) m (of a place)
- Romanian: custode (ro) m
- Russian: опеку́н (ru) m (opekún), попечи́тель (ru) m (popečítelʹ), попечи́тельница (ru) f (popečítelʹnica)
- Spanish: custodio (es) m, custodia (es) f, depositario (es) m, depositaria f
- Swedish: förmyndare (sv) c
- Tagalog: taga-ingat
- Turkish: bekçi (tr), koruyan (law), nazır (tr) (law), vasi (tr) (law), yönetici (tr)
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Further reading
- “custodian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “custodian”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “custodian”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.