(1):
(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
(2):
(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(3):
(a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; - contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
(4):
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
(5):
(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; - opposed to revolutionary or radical.
(6):
(n.) A member of the Conservative party.