The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception. / Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

To keep back; to retain. / To keep in store for future or special use. / To book in advance; to make a reservation. / (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick. / The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

simple past tense and past participle of reserve

(comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions. / (not comparable) Set aside for a particular person or purpose.

A city in Kansas. / A census-designated place in Louisiana. / A census-designated place in Montana. / A village, the county seat of Catron County, New Mexico. / A census-designated place in Wisconsin.

plural of reserve

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reserve

plural of reservation

(archaic, rare) Reservation.