reservation
(noun) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
booking, reservation
(noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); “wondered who had made the booking”
reservation
(noun) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
reservation, qualification
(noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim; “he recommended her without any reservations”
reservation
(noun) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
reservation, reserve
(noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose
Source: WordNet® 3.1
reservation (countable and uncountable, plural reservations)
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
(often, in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
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 or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
• (advance arrangement): booking
• (central reservation, motorway lane separator): median, median strip
• (Indian reservation): reserve, res, rez
• veratrosine
Source: Wiktionary
Res`er*va"tion (rz`r-v"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.]
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]
4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak.
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.
Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
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. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
