reservation

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding.
2. n. Something that is kept back or withheld.
3. n. A limiting qualification, condition, or exception: has reservations about the proposal.
4. n. A tract of land set apart by the federal government for a special purpose, especially one for the use of a Native American people.
5. n. An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or on an airplane.
6. n. The accommodations so secured.
7. n. The record or promise of such an arrangement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of reserving or keeping back; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure.
2. n. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
3. n. In the United States, a traet of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, the use of Indians, etc.: as, the Crow reservation. Also reserve.
4. n. The state of being treasured up or kept in store; custody; safe keeping.
5. n. In law:
6. n. An express withholding of certain rights the surrender of which would otherwise follow or might be inferred from one's act (Mackeldey); a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved.
7. n. Technically, in the law of conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor of real property reserves to himself, or himself and his successors in interest, some new thing to issue out of the thing granted, as distinguished from excepting a part of the thing itself. Thus, if a man conveys a farm, saving to himself a field, this is an exception; but if he saves to himself a right of way through a field, this is a reservation.
8. n. The right created by such a clause.
9. n. Eccles.:
10. n. The act or practice of retaining or preserving part of the consecrated eucharistic elements or species, especially that of bread, unconsumed for a shorter or longer period after the celebration of the sacrament. The practice has existed from early times, and is still in use in the Roman Catholic, the Greek, and other churches, especially to provide for the communion of the sick and prisoners.
11. n. In the Roman Catholic Church, the act of the Pope in reserving to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
2. n. Something that is withheld or kept back.
3. n. A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).
4. n. US A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
5. n. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
6. n. UK the area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
2. n. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
3. n. U.S. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
4. n. The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
5. n. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
6. n. A proviso.
7. n. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
8. n. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
9. n. an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a district that is reserved for particular purpose
2. n. the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
3. n. an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
4. n. something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
5. n. a statement that limits or restricts some claim
6. n. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
7. n. the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion