preparator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of preparator
1755–65; < Late Latin praeparātor preparer, equivalent to praeparā ( re ) to prepare + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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“A very fine product,” says senior art preparator Michael Price with a sly smile.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025
Beneath it, Blasto Onyango, head preparator of the National Museums of Kenya, found a huge hominin molar.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 8, 2023
“A bone is a bone, but every spot is different,” said Beau Campbell, a senior preparator at the Dinosaur Institute.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022
“It’s very low tech,” said Jabo, a Smithsonian fossil preparator.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2015
Before reaching the latter we find two offices that face each other, one of them for the lecturer and the other for the preparator.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various
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