Definition of reservation

• n. - The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
• n. - Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
• n. - A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
• n. - The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
• n. - A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
• n. - A proviso.
• n. - The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
• n. - A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.