reservations
Doubts or bookings
Reservations are doubts or misgivings that hold you back from full commitment: I have reservations about the plan.
The word also means arrangements to hold something in advance—a table at a restaurant, a hotel room, a seat on a flight: Do you have a reservation?
In North American history, a reservation is land set aside for Indigenous peoples, often through forced relocation.
The singular reservation covers all these uses; the plural simply indicates multiple instances.
Feelings of doubt
- qualmsMoral reservations or unease
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
second thoughts · wariness · apprehension · reluctance · distrust · suspicions · scruples · ambivalence
Place serving meals
- tableHorizontal furniture surface
- seatingAvailable places to sit
- hostessFemale event organizer
- maitre d'Chief dining room attendant
party · waitlist · OpenTable · prix fixe · tasting menu · private room · patio · window seat
Establishing something as true
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- cancellationVoiding of plans
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- guaranteeFormal promise of fulfillment
prepayment · confirmation number · voucher · online · portal · double-booking · overbooking · waitlist
Binding pact between nations
- landEarth's solid surface
- tribalOf a clan
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- Native AmericanOriginal inhabitants of America
First Nations · territory · federal · self-governance · casino · pueblo · nation · indigenous
misgivings
Feelings of doubt
- qualmsMoral reservations or unease
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
uncertainty · second thoughts · wariness · apprehension · reluctance · distrust · suspicions · scruples · ambivalence · discomfort
restaurant
Place serving meals
maitre d' · party · waitlist · OpenTable · prix fixe · tasting menu · private room · patio · window seat · cancellation policy
confirmation
Establishing something as true
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- cancellationVoiding of plans
- depositPlace for safekeeping
guarantee · prepayment · confirmation number · voucher · online · portal · double-booking · overbooking · waitlist · no-show
treaty
Binding pact between nations
- landEarth's solid surface
- tribalOf a clan
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
Native American · First Nations · territory · federal · self-governance · casino · pueblo · nation · indigenous · ancestral
hotels
Commercial lodging establishments
- flightsScheduled air travel segments
- accommodationShelter or housing provided
- itineraryPlanned sequence of destinations
check-in · hostels · suites · airport transfers · cruise · campsite · resort · Airbnb · tour · excursion
- diningrestaurant, menu, waiter, servers, waitress
- tourismtourists, sightseeing, guided tours, heritage sites, travelers
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- American frontierfrontier, westward expansion, pioneers, homesteading, homesteads
- hotelshotel staff, hotel room, accommodations, hotelier, innkeeper
- restaurantsmenu, chef, table service, waitstaff, hostess stand
reservationscertainties
Assured truths
convictions · confidence · certitude · sureness · decisiveness
reservationscancellations
Official voidings of arrangements
walk-ins · no-shows · vacancies · availability · openings
- hotel reservationPrearranged lodging accommodation
- dinner reservationScheduled restaurant seating
- without reservation
- reservation systemSoftware managing advance bookings
- Indian reservationDesignated tribal trust land
- reservation numberBooking identification sequence