Noun

(en noun)

The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

Something that is withheld or kept back.

A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).

I have reservations about your intentions.

(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (reserve)).

An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.

(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.

(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

Noun

(-)

A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.

I decided, with considerable trepidation , to let him drive my car without me.

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She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation . Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?

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An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.

(astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.