reserved

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɝvd/

• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɜːvd/
• Hyphenation: re‧served

Verb

reserved

1. simple past and past participle of reserve

Adjective

reserved (comparative more reserved, superlative most reserved)

1. (comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.

   He was a quiet, reserved person.

   • 1942 July-August, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: II—C. J. Bowen Cooke”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:

     Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a "bit of a martinet"; [...].

2. (not comparable) Set aside for a particular person or purpose; spoken for.

   I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[1]:

     A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family.

   • 2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Overcrowded trains... and inconvenience for passengers”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44:

     The LNER website, for example, tries to stop people buying off-peak tickets for services that the company reckons are full, even though there is nothing to prevent people without a seat reservation from getting on a particular service. Indeed, I did so recently on the Inverness midday train, which is a superb service to York, and inevitably there were plenty of reserved seats where the passengers had not turned up.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:taciturn

Derived terms

• all rights reserved
• no rights reserved
• reserved bus lane
• reserved case
• reserved list
• reservedly
• reservedness
• reserved powers
• reserved track
• reserved word (computing)
• some rights reserved

 

Translations

slow to reveal emotion or opinions

• Bulgarian: сдържан (bg) (sdǎržan), резервиран (bg) (rezerviran)
• Catalan: reservat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 含蓄がんちく (zh) (hánxù), 矜持きょうじ (zh) (jīnchí), 拘かかわ謹／拘かかわ谨 (zh) (jūjǐn)

• Czech: odměřený (cs), rezervovaný
• Danish: reserveret
• Dutch: terughoudend (nl)
• Esperanto: rezerviĝema
• Finnish: pidättyväinen (fi), varautunut (fi)
• French: réservé (fr) m
• Georgian: გულჩათხრობილი (gulčatxrobili), უთქმელი (utkmeli), გულჩახვეული (gulčaxveuli), თავდაჭერილი (tavdač̣erili), გულდახურული (guldaxuruli), თავშეკავებული (tavšeḳavebuli), ფრთხილი (prtxili)
• German: reserviert (de)
• Hungarian: zárkózott (hu)
• Japanese: 引ひっ込こみ思案じあん (ja) (ひっこみじあん, hikkomi-jian)
• Latin: verēcundus
• Maori: nguengue, ngākau tōngā, hūnguengue
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reservert

  Nynorsk: reservert

• Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
• Persian: کم‌حرف (kam-harf), تودار (fa) (tudâr)
• Polish: powściągliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: reservado (pt)
• Russian: скры́тный (ru) (skrýtnyj), сде́ржанный (ru) (sdéržannyj), за́мкнутый (ru) (zámknutyj)
• Spanish: reservado (es)
• Swedish: tillbakadragen (sv), reserverad (sv)
• Turkish: mesafeli (tr)

set aside for a particular person or purpose

• Bulgarian: запасен (bg) (zapasen), резервен (bg) (rezerven)
• Catalan: reservat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專用せんよう的てき／专用的てき (zhuānyòng de)

• Czech: rezervovaný
• Danish: reserveret
• Esperanto: rezervita
• Estonian: reserveeritud
• Finnish: varattu (fi)
• French: réservé (fr) m
• Georgian: დაჯავშნილი (daǯavšnili), რეზერვირებული (rezervirebuli), დაკავებული (daḳavebuli), გადადებული (gadadebuli), შეკვეთილი (šeḳvetili)
• German: reserviert (de)
• Greek: ρεζερβέ (el) (rezervé)
• Hungarian: foglalt (hu), lefoglalt (hu)
• Norwegian: reservert
• Persian: رزروشده (rezerv-šode)
• Polish: zarezerwowany m
• Portuguese: reservado (pt)
• Russian: зарезерви́рованный (ru) (zarezervírovannyj)
• Spanish: reservado (es)
• Swedish: reserverad (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} rêsèrvé (Jersey)

See also

• shy

Anagrams

• deserver, reversed