RESERVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reservation mean? 

• RESERVATION (noun)
  The noun RESERVATION has 7 senses:

1. a district that is reserved for particular purpose

2. a statement that limits or restricts some claim

3. an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

4. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)

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

  Familiarity information: RESERVATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESERVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A district that is reserved for particular purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

reservation; reserve

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reservation"):

Indian reservation (a reservation set aside for the use of Indians)

preserve (a reservation where animals are protected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement that limits or restricts some claim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

qualification; reservation

Context example:

he recommended her without any reservations

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reservation"):

fine print; small print (the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type)

weasel word (an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

arriere pensee; mental reservation; reservation

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety; dubiousness; incertitude; uncertainty (the state of being unsure of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

booking; reservation

Context example:

wondered who had made the booking

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)

Derivation:

reserve (obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance)

reserve (arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

prearrangement (something arranged in advance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reservation"):

upgrade (a reservation that is improved)

Derivation:

reserve (obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance)

reserve (arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reservation" is a kind of...):

preservation; saving (the activity of protecting something from loss or danger)

Derivation:

reserve (hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency)

 Context examples 

I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I search my breast, and I commit its secrets, if I know them, without any reservation to this paper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There had been no reservation on White Fang's part, and the bond was not to be broken easily.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You might forget to make a certain reservation or have the wrong address, the reason it’s wise to check everything.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I set myself to copy it, and you can imagine my astonishment when I found that, with some reservations, he had left all his property to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I accept your limitation, said Van Helsing, and all I ask of you is that if you feel it necessary to condemn any act of mine, you will first consider it well and be satisfied that it does not violate your reservations.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Everything supplied an amusement to the high glee of William's mind, and he was full of frolic and joke in the intervals of their higher-toned subjects, all of which ended, if they did not begin, in praise of the Thrush, conjectures how she would be employed, schemes for an action with some superior force, which (supposing the first lieutenant out of the way, and William was not very merciful to the first lieutenant) was to give himself the next step as soon as possible, or speculations upon prize-money, which was to be generously distributed at home, with only the reservation of enough to make the little cottage comfortable, in which he and Fanny were to pass all their middle and later life together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the 1800s, the buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction not only for their valuable hides but also because many U.S. generals, including President Ulysses S. Grant, believed that removing the buffalo would undermine the economies of many of the Native American tribes that depended on them for food and goods and make it easier to push them onto reservations.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

I could not live and have one reservation, knowing what I know now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are attached, consider making a reservation in a festive restaurant for a beautiful dinner for two after work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)