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# reservation

«reservation» in Mova's school dictionary: **an arrangement to keep a table, seat, room or ticket for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a reservation, reservations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A reservation is an arrangement to keep a table, seat, room or ticket for you, a booking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#m1)

2) A reservation is a doubt you have about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#m2)

3) A reservation (in the USA and Canada) is land kept for Native American peoples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#m3)

4) (UK) The central reservation is the strip in the middle of a motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you make a reservation at a restaurant or hotel; in history lessons reservations were land given to Native Americans; in opinion writing «reservations» means doubts. Phrases: make a reservation, without reservation, have reservations about.

### examples

- Dad made a reservation for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x1)
- We have a reservation for four at seven o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x2)
- I have reservations about this plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x3)
- Many Native Americans live on reservations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x4)
- The car hit the central reservation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x5)
- She agreed without reservation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/#x6)

### note

Countable. From «reserve». In the USA and Canada «reservation» is also called «reserve» (Canada). «Without reservation» means completely.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reservation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.