'Reservation' definitions:
Definition of 'reservation'
From: WordNet
noun
A district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reservation, reserve]
noun
A statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" [syn: reservation, qualification]
noun
An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly [syn: mental reservation, reservation, arriere pensee]
noun
The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: booking, reservation]
noun
The written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
noun
Something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
noun
The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
Definition of 'Reservation'
From: GCIDE
- Reservation \Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.]
- 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- With reservation of an hundred knights. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Make some reservation of your wrongs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso. --Kent. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Eccl.) (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. [1913 Webster]
- 7. an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz. [PJC]
- Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reservation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allowance,
- appointment,
- archives,
- area,
- arrangement,
- bank,
- bespeaking,
- bird sanctuary,
- booking,
- briefing,
- cession,
- circumscription,
- concession,
- condition,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurrer,
- employment,
- engagement,
- exception,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- forest preserve,
- game reserve,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- hiring,
- holding back,
- Indian reservation,
- library,
- limitation,
- mental reservation,
- modification,
- museum,
- national forest,
- national park,
- objection,
- paradise,
- park,
- plot,
- preengagement,
- preserve,
- provision,
- proviso,
- qualification,
- qualm,
- region,
- reluctance,
- reserve,
- restriction,
- retainment,
- reticence,
- salvo,
- sanctuary,
- scruple,
- section,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- state forest,
- stipulation,
- store,
- string,
- strings,
- taking on,
- term,
- terms,
- territory,
- tract,
- waiver,
- wilderness preserve,
- wildlife preserve,
- withholding
Words containing 'Reservation'
- In reserve,
- Reservance,
- Reservative,
- Reserve,
- Reserved,
- Reservedly,
- Reserver,
- Reserving,
- reserves,
- Indian reservation,
- Mental reservation,
- Reserve Township,
- Reserve air,
- Reserve city,
- Reserve, KS,
- Reserve, LA,
- Reserve, MT,
- Reserve, NM,
- Reserve, WI,
- federal reserve,
- hidden reserve,
- home reserve,
- initial reserve,
- insurance reserve,
- investment reserve,
- military reserve,
- pulmonary reserve,
- real reserve,
- reserve account,
- reserve assets,
- reserve bank,
- reserve clause,
- reserve fund,
- terminal reserve,
- territorial reserve,
- valuation reserve,
- Rancho Tehama Reserve,
- Reserve Township, PA,
- central reserve cities,
- cookie jar reserve,
- federal reserve bank,
- federal reserve board,
- federal reserve note,
- federal reserve system,
- Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA,
- reserve officers training corps