reserve

B1 Topic:House & Home

US /ɹɪˈzɝv/ UK /ɹɪˈzɜːv/ See IPA manual

verb noun Freq #5787

Meanings

1

verb
To arrange for a room, table, or seat to be kept for you in advance.

I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
2

verb
To keep something for a special or future use.

This cake is reserved for the guests!
3

noun
A supply of something kept for future use.

The country has large oil reserves.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 verb · to arrange for a room,... book hold

2 verb · to keep something for a... hold save

More reserviststatavrterriersterritorials

Word family

Forms reservedreservedlyreservesreserving

Derived forms bioreservenonreserveoff-reserveoverreservereservablereservativereserveereservelessreservismreservorressieunderreserve

Related forms reservist

Common collocations

reserve a seat Verb + noun

Etymology

From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

*ser- (guard) Proto-Indo-European reserver Old French reservō Latin

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Topics

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# reserve

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** ɹɪˈzɝv
**IPA (UK):** ɹɪˈzɜːv
**Frequency rank:** 5787

## Meanings
1. To arrange for a room, table, or seat to be kept for you in advance.
2. To keep something for a special or future use.
3. A supply of something kept for future use.

## Examples
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- The country has large oil reserves.

## Synonyms
- reservists
- ta
- tavr
- terriers
- territorials

## Derived Forms
- bioreserve
- nonreserve
- off-reserve
- overreserve
- reservable
- reservative
- reservee
- reserveless
- reservism
- reservor
- ressie
- underreserve

## Related Forms
- reservist

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *ser- (guard)
- Root: reserver
- Root: reservō

## Etymology
From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

## AI Etymology
Reserve comes from Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”). Modern senses include to arrange for a room, table, or seat to be kept for you in advance. and to keep something for a special or future use.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as bioreserve, nonreserve, off-reserve, overreserve, reservable, and reservative and related forms such as reservist.

## Topics
- House & Home
- Actions & Processes

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