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title: "What are reserved words?"  
description: "What are reserved words?"  
author: "Jayden Bell"  
published: 2017-11-13  
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category: "programming"  
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# What are reserved words?

What are reserved words?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

## "Reserve Word"

In terms of programming language Reserve Words are those words **which have a fixed meaning** and **can’t be redefined by the programmers.** In other words you can say that it is predefined words.

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## List of reserved words per programming language:

- C++ - 92
- Python 2 - 31
- Python 3 - 33
- Ruby - 41
- Golang - 25
- Java - 53
- Scala - 50

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## Some Reserve Words are-

adouble else enum eval

bstract arguments await boolean

break byte case catch

finally float for function

char class const continue

debugger default delete do

export extends false final

goto if implements import

throw throws transient true

in instanceof int interface

let long native new

null package private protected

public return short static

super switch synchronized this

try typeof var void

volatile while with yield

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