Definition of "reservation" []

• The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding. (noun)
• Something that is kept back or withheld. (noun)
• A limiting qualification, condition, or exception: has reservations about the proposal. (noun)
• A tract of land set apart by the federal government for a special purpose, especially one for the use of a Native American people. (noun)
• An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or on an airplane. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Back in the airport, we find out that the person who made the reservation made it for a day earlier, so the reservation is automatically canceled."
• "The problem here in most popular places in the high season a reservation is a must."
• "While I was waiting I spoke to a mulatto and asked him if he was acquainted in Canada, and what they called the reservation back of Windsor, three or four miles."