RESERVATION

n. 1 keeping or holding back, withholding, reticence, reluctance, hesitation, hesitancy, hedging It was not without some reservation that I gave the book my endorsement 2 qualm, scruple, qualification, hesitancy, limitation, exception, objection, demur or demurral or demurrer, condition, proviso, provision He has no reservations about revealing the most intimate details in his autobiography 3 booking, appointment, arrangement I'll make a reservation for dinner for the two of us 4 preserve, sanctuary, reserve, area, tract, territory, region, section, plot In North America, many Indians still live on reservations