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PRESERVATIONIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preservationist mean?
• PRESERVATIONIST (noun)
The noun PRESERVATIONIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
Familiarity information: PRESERVATIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("preservationist" is a kind of...):
crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)
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