Other forms: reservoirs
A reservoir is a store of water held for later use. A drinking reservoir, the reservoir is low, build a reservoir.
Making one means flooding a valley, and villages have been drowned for them and reappear in droughts. In medicine, a reservoir is an animal population that keeps a disease alive between outbreaks in people. The French means a storehouse.
1nouncontainerA store of water held for later use.
“The town gets its drinking water from a reservoir in the hills.”
reservoir is a store.
French reservoir means a storehouse, from reserver, to keep back, from Latin reservare.
French
réservoir — collection place
English, today
reservoir
Built from
From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA