English Explanatory Dictionary

rest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
  2. Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
  3. Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
  4. A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
  5. A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
  6. A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
  7. A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
  8. Absence of motion.
  9. A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
  10. Any object designed to be used to support something else.
  11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
  12. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
verb
  1. To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
  2. To come to a pause or an end; end.
  3. To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
  4. To put into a state of rest.
  5. To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
  6. To rely or depend on.
  7. To be based on; to rely on something for proof or explanation
  8. To lean, lie, or lay.
  9. To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
  10. To sleep; slumber.
  11. To lie dormant.
  12. To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
noun
  1. That which remains.
  2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
  3. A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
verb
  1. To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
  2. To keep a certain way.
verb
  1. To arrest.
noun
  1. Acronym of representational state transfer.
name
  1. Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
name
  1. Syllabic abbreviation of reStructuredText, a plain-text markup language.

Pronunciation

rĕst /ɹɛst/ en-us-rest.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rest.wav

Word forms

rest rests resting rested

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *rastō Proto-West Germanic *rastu Old English ræst Middle English reste English rest From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

Synonyms

sleep slumber break repose time off peace quiet roo silence stillness tranquility cradle support relieve lean place put lie have a breather pause take a break take time off take time out be remain reside stay relax lay lave remainder

Antonyms

activity motion

Related words

RST ReST

Derived words

a change is as good as a rest armrest arm rest at rest beauty rest bedrest benchrest bookrest breve rest chapel of rest chinrest chin rest chopstick rest come to rest crotchet rest day of rest demisemiquaver rest Diggers Rest eighth rest elbow rest eternal rest foot rest footrest give it a rest gun rest half rest handrest head rest headrest hemidemisemiquaver rest incisal rest knife-rest knife rest lance rest lay to rest leg rest mesonephric rest migratory restlessness minim rest neck rest no rest for the weary no rest for the wicked palmrest parade rest put to rest quarter rest quaver rest rest and residue rest and vest rest area rest centre rest day rest energy restframe restful rest-harrow Rest Haven resthold rest home resthouse

Translations

Dutch: daarbij laten Finnish: vetäytyä French: en finir Spanish: desistir Arabic: بَاقِيَّة Arabic: أَثَارَة Armenian: մնացորդ Asturian: restu Belarusian: рэ́шта Belarusian: аста́так Belarusian: аста́ча Bulgarian: остатък Catalan: resta Chinese Mandarin: 剩餘部分 /剩余部分 Chinese Mandarin: 其餘 /其余 Czech: zbytek Danish: rest Dutch: rest Esperanto: resto Esperanto: restaĵo Estonian: jääk Finnish: loput French: reste Galician: resto Georgian: ნარჩენი German: Rest Hebrew: שְׁאָר Hindi: बाक़ी Hungarian: maradék Hungarian: többi Icelandic: afgangur Icelandic: rest Irish: fuílleach Italian: resto Japanese: 残り Japanese: 余り Korean: 나머지 Latin: reliquum Latvian: atlikums Macedonian: остаток Māori: toenga Māori: mōmōhanga Norwegian Bokmål: rest Norwegian Nynorsk: rest Occitan: resta Old English: lāf Persian: سایر Persian: بقیه Polish: reszta Portuguese: resto Portuguese: sobra Quechua: puchu Romanian: rest Russian: оста́ток Scots: lave
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