Dictionary Definition
reservation
Noun
1 a district that is reserved for particular
purpose [syn: reserve]
2 a statement that limits or restricts some
claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" [syn: qualification]
3 an unstated doubt that prevents you from
accepting something wholeheartedly [syn: mental
reservation, arriere
pensee]
4 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]
5 the written record or promise of an arrangement
by which accommodations are secured in advance
6 something reserved in advance (as a hotel
accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
7 the act of keeping back or setting aside for
some future occasion
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back
- Something that is withheld or kept back
- A limiting qualification (often used
in the plural)
- I have reservations about your intentions
- A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance
- (UK) the area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
Translations
Act of withholding
- German: Reservierung
Something withheld
A limiting qualification
Arrangement by which something is secured in
advance
- German: Reservierung
- Slovene: rezervacija
Area that separates opposing traffic lanes
Translations to be checked
- Chinese: 保留 (bǎo liú)
- Dutch: reserve
- Finnish: varaus (1,4), varaaminen (1), ehto (2), reservaatti (3)
- French: réservation
- German: Vorbestellung , Vorbehalt
- Greek: επιφύλαξη
- Italian: prenotazione
- Japanese: 予約 (よやく, yoyaku)
- Korean: 예약 (yeyak)
- Russian: резервирование (rezervírovanije) , резервация (rezervátsija)
- Spanish: reservación
Synonyms
- booking (5)
- median (6)
- median strip (6)
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Reservation may refer to:
- Indian reservation, in the United States
- Indian reserve, in Canada
- Reservation (law), a caveat to a treaty
- Reservation in India, a government policy imposing quotas for political representation
- Reservation of the Sacrament, a Christian religious practice
- Computer reservations system, used to store information about transactions related to travel
- Nature reserve
- "Reservations", a song by Spoon from their album A Series of Sneaks
reservation in French: Réservation
reservation in Russian: Резервация
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Indian reservation, 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, 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