reservation Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a district that is reserved for particular purpose
reserve.
noun a statement that limits or restricts some claim
qualification.
- he recommended her without any reservations
noun an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
arriere pensee; mental reservation.
noun the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
booking.
- wondered who had made the booking
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

Cf. F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.

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.
Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.
A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. U.S.
The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak.
(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. ✍ This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
(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.