reservation
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5.0
- noun
- /ˌrɛzərˈveɪʃən/
- US
:
reserva
- In time, the U.S. government removed the Chiricahua Apache from their reservation and other lands.
- Indian reservation
- live on the reservation
- enter the reservation
And the few that remain live in horrific conditions in what we call reservations scattered across the country.
- And the few that remain live in horrific conditions in what we call reservations scattered across the country.
- Now, this school on the reservation was traditionally at the bottom of the district.
- That was the fate that was sealed for them, to put them off in these reservations where eventually it would just disappear and die out.
- She said, you go to Canyon Deshay, which is in the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
- But we did find out because we we're right next to the Flathead Indian Reservation that Native Americans cannot be around human body parts.
Examples
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The following year, the exiled Pals left the reservation and rejoined the eastern bands in their homelands.
Academic text (1999) -
U.S. officials identified Quashackama as the "head chief" on the reservation, but his influence remained limited.
Academic text (1999) -
His house is not on the reservation.
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Well, in Oklahoma, the only major reservation is right there.
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The rest live on a few little reservations, some of them clear up in Canada.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Fort Pack reservation is in the far northeast corner of Montana.
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She has travelled all the way here from the reservation in Colorado.
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Junior is a teenage boy whose family lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington.
Academic text (2012) -
I spent a little bit of time on the Navajo reservation in Chin Lane, Arizona.
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The Navajo Nation operates several programs to protect the environment on their reservation.
Synonyms
49
4.4
A protected area of land for wildlife or local people
36
4.9
An area of land where animals and plants are protected
12
5.0
Land set aside for a Native American tribe to live on and use
Compounds
How Protected
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4.1
43
1.5
49
4.4
- US
166
5.0
25
5.6
81
1.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reservation comes from Latin re- 'back' and servare 'to keep', so it literally means 'kept back' or 'set aside'. That's why a reservation can be land that a government keeps for a people or for wildlife protection.