Noun: conserve
| Singular | conserve |
| Plural | conserves |
Sample Sentences
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I shall […] study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. [1709 August 21 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Wednesday, August 11, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 53; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:]
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water[…]alwayes placed in the Conserve [c. 1700, John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum:]
Nouns inflected like conserve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English conserven, from Old French conserver, from Latin conservare (“to keep, preserve”), from com- (intensive prefix) + servo (“keep watch, maintain”). See also observe. See: Latin Nouns '
conservare'.
Verbs referencing "conserve"
Polish Nouns
konserwa, Hungarian Nouns
konzerv.