réserve

See also: reserve, Reserve, réservé, reservé, and rêsèrvé

French

Etymology

Deverbal from réserver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.zɛʁv/

• Audio:

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Noun

réserve f (plural réserves)

1. reservation

   sous réserve des conditions suivantes ― subject to the following conditions

2. reserve; stock
3. stockroom
4. (military) reserve (body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; force or body of troops kept for an exigency)
5. (North America) spare (bowling)
6. reserve; reservation (land allocated for indigenous peoples)

Derived terms

• réserve naturelle
• sans réserve
• sous réserve de
• sous réserve que
• réserviste

Descendants

• → Romanian: rezervă
• → Russian: резе́рв (rezérv)
• → Turkish: rezerv
• → Ukrainian: резе́рв (rezérv)

Verb

réserve

1. inflection of réserver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “réserve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• reverse, reversé