Usually means: Maintenance of condition or integrity.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word preservation:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. preservation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preservation: Merriam-Webster
  3. preservation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preservation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preservation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preservation, preservation: Wordnik
  7. preservation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preservation: Wiktionary
  9. preservation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Preservation, preservation: Dictionary.com
  11. preservation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Preservation (song), Preservation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Preservation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. preservation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. preservation: Rhymezone
  16. Preservation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. preservation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. preservation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. preservation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. preservation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. preservation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. preservation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preservation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. preservation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preservation: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. preservation: Evolution Glossary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Preservation: Building pathology glossary
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. PRESERVATION: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See preserve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
noun:  The state of being preserved, how something has survived.

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