Crossword-Solution: RESERVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reserve | v. t. | To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. |
| Reserve | v. t. | Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. |
| Reserve | v. t. | To make an exception of; to except. |
| Reserve | n. | The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. |
| Reserve | n. | That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. |
| Reserve | n. | That which is excepted; exception. |
| Reserve | n. | Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. |
| Reserve | n. | A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy. |
| Reserve | n. | A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. |
| Reserve | n. | Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RESERVE | anagram | RESEVER, REVERES, REVERSE, SEVERER |
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Sentences with RESERVE (5)
Hist.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus[Lat], national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.
But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
Another hacker quirk is a tendency to distinguish between `scare' quotes and `speech' quotes; that is, to use British-style single quotes for marking and reserve American-style double quotes for actual reports of speech or text included from elsewhere.
Quotes with RESERVE (3)
I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all …
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).