reserves

1. 1.

   civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army

   Synonymsmilitia

   Broadermilitary unit

   NarrowerSAtrainband

   Partsterritorial

   military

Other forms of reserves

plural

reserveses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reserves

What does reserves mean?

reserves means "civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army".

How many syllables are in reserves?

reserves has 2 syllables: reser-ves. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈzɝvz/.

What is another word for reserves?

Close synonyms include militia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reserves a common word?

reserves is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reserves?

1 word rhymes with reserves. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.