• (RP) IPA: /pɹəˈzɜːv/
• (GA) IPA: /pɹəˈzɝv/

preserve

1. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of fruits.
2. A reservation, a nature preserve.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's preserves, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss.

3. An activity with restricted access.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 86:

     No one can argue with that—neither the Army Commander nor Zhilinsky nor even the Grand Duke. That is the Emperor’s preserve. The Emperor says France must be saved. We can only do his bidding.

• French: confiture, conserve
• Russian: варе́нье
• Spanish: mermelada

• French: réserve naturelle
• Italian: riserva
• Portuguese: reserva
• Russian: запове́дник
• Spanish: reserva, reserva natural

• Spanish: coto, terreno, dominio

• jam
• jelly
• marmalade

preserve (preserves, present participle preserving; past and past participle preserved)

1. To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.

   • Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.

2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.

   to preserve peaches or grapes

3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

   to preserve appearances; to preserve silence

• French: préserver
• German: erhalten, bewahren
• Italian: preservare
• Portuguese: preservar
• Russian: защища́ть
• Spanish: preservar

• French: conserver
• German: bewahren, aufrechterhalten
• Portuguese: conservar
• Russian: сохраня́ть
• Spanish: conservar