réserve
French
Etymology
Deverbal from réserver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.zɛʁv/
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Noun
réserve f (plural réserves)
- reservation
- sous réserve des conditions suivantes ― subject to the following conditions
- reserve; stock
- stockroom
- (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)
- (North America) spare (bowling)
- reserve; reservation (land allocated for indigenous peoples)
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
réserve
- inflection of réserver:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “réserve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.