rodrimuino
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Are these two words synonyms?
Booking == Reservation ????
Thanks in advance!
Booking == Reservation ????
Thanks in advance!
Are these two words synonyms?
Booking == Reservation ????
Thanks in advance!
There is a shade of difference.
A reservation is the arrangement for (a seat, ticket, etc.) to be kept for the use of a particular person:
in a restaraunt, you will hear Do you have a reservation for tonight?
In a hotel: I have a reservation for a double room.
A booking is the arrangement to have a seat, room, entertainer, etc. at a particular time in the future:
I would like to book a table for tonight.
I would like to book a room for three nights next month.
I have booked a seat on the train tomorrow.
We have a booking for a table tonight.
Both are used in the UK, with these differences.
Well, the pub we booked a table in today asked if we had made a reservation.
D'you know Anglika, this goes some way towards confirming what I've been thinking for some time now, pubs in England are becoming more and more pretentious. Speaking, admittedly, as someone who hasn't lived in England for 20 years but who, nevertheless, visits regularly and keeps in touch with people there.
I see nothing pretentious in asking if you have reserved a table. Seems to me to be totally normal.
I think it is much more that the whole balance is changing. Pretentious pubs don't last. And these days, with smoking and drink-driving as crimes, pubs have to find other attractions for their customers than merely good beer.
Hi rodrimuino,
reserve = to cause to be set aside, as for one's use, in advance: bespeak, book, engage.
SYNONYMS book, bespeak, engage, reserve. These verbs mean to cause something to be set aside in advance, as for one's use or possession: will book a hotel room; made sure their selections were bespoken; engaged a box for the opera season; reserving a table at a restaurant.
Reservation =
1. Booking, appointment, or date to perform some activity at a particular time and place.
reservation: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com
book: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com
reserve: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com
Regards.
V.
Thank you for getting back to the point of the question vil.
...and for our part, we'll overlook how it became obscured!
It was not obscured by me, if you look at my original post on the thread, it was simply to say that the two were synonimous, it was Anglica who introduced the argument about differences in meaning.
Re-read my posts. There is the same definition in Vil's post.