RESERVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reservist mean? 

• RESERVIST (noun)
  The noun RESERVIST has 1 sense:

1. a member of a military reserve

  Familiarity information: RESERVIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESERVIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a military reserve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("reservist" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reservist"):

Wave (a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch)

weekend warrior (a reservist who fulfills the military obligation on weekends)

Holonyms ("reservist" is a member of...):

military reserve; reserve (armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency)

Derivation:

reserve (armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency)