reserved
(adjective) marked by self-restraint and reticence; “was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion”-Victoria Sackville-West
reserved
(adjective) set aside for the use of a particular person or party
Source: WordNet® 3.1
reserved
simple past tense and past participle of reserve
reserved (comparative more reserved, superlative most reserved)
(comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
(not comparable) Set aside for a particular person or purpose.
• See also taciturn
• deserver, reversed
Source: Wiktionary
Re*served" (-zrvd"), a.
1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden.
– Re*serv"ed*ly (r, adv.
– Re*serv"ed*ness, n.
Re*serve" (r-zrv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (zp. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] Etym: [F. réserver, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.]
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak.
2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. xxvii. 35. Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble Job xxxviii. 22,23. Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. Swift.
3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
Re*serve", n. Etym: [F. réserve.]
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison.
2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. Tillotson.
3. That which is excepted; exception. Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. Rogers.
4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.
5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
6. (Mil.)
Definition: A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
7. (Banking)
Definition: Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve.
– Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.
Syn.
– Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
