Other forms: curated; curates; curating
When you curate something, you organize and present it. If you work for a museum, you might curate an exhibit of abstract sculpture.
The noun curate originally referred to anyone taking care of church property in some way. Nowadays, the noun generally refers to a person with religious training who conducts religious services. Curate comes from the word cure, and a curate is supposed to cure that most important part of you — your soul. When you curate a museum exhibit — or a selection of 1980s fashion for your retro blog — you care for or manage it just as a curate cares for a parish.
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a person authorized to conduct religious worshipsynonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rectortypes:ministrantsomeone who serves as a ministertype of:clergyman, man of the cloth, reverenda member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of a Christian church
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organize and oversee items in a collection or exhibit
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select and present content or information
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