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reservatory

reservatory noun: a place in which things are reserved or kept.

Noun

reservatory (plural reservatories)

  1. A place in which things are reserved or kept.
    • I got such Notice of that subterranean Reservatory as to enable me to make a Computation of the Quantity of Water1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC

Adjective

reservatory (not comparable)

  1. reserving something
    • a reservatory clause

Forms of reservatory

pluralreservatories

Origin of reservatory

From Latin reservatorium, from resservare. See reserve and compare reservoir.

Questions about reservatory

What does reservatory mean?
Reservatory means a place in which things are reserved or kept.
What part of speech is reservatory?
Reservatory can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of reservatory?
The plural of reservatory is reservatories.

Words near reservatory in the dictionary

  1. reservationists
  2. reservations
  3. reservative
  4. reservatives
  5. reservatories
  6. reservatory
  7. reservatrol
  8. reserve
  9. reserve bank
  10. reserve banks
  11. reserve buoyancy

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