Associations to the word «Preservation»

Wiktionary

PRESERVATION, noun. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

Dictionary definition

PRESERVATION, noun. The activity of protecting something from loss or danger.
PRESERVATION, noun. The condition of being (well or ill) preserved.
PRESERVATION, noun. A process that saves organic substances from decay.
PRESERVATION, noun. An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky