Rest

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.
 * 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)  That which remains.

Verb

 * 1)  To be or to put into a state of rest.
 * 2)  To stay, remain, be situated.
 * 3)  To lean, lie, or lay.
 * 4)  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.)

Adjectives for Rest
ecstatic; listless; ignoble; needful; saintly; unutterable; heavy-laden; comfortable; peaceful; common; prolonged; life-preserving; spacious; everlasting; fitting; unadulterated; grave; wholesome; predestined; eternal; tumultuous; sullen; gracious; mental; refreshing; frequent; happy; placid; noontide; recumbent; interminable; absolute; perpetual; balmy; breathless; comparative; saintly.

Verbs for Rest
abstain from—; advocate—; afford—; deserve—; desist from—; enjoin—; enjoy—; fold in—; refrain from—; terminate—; — comforts; —delays; —eases; —invigorates; —refreshes; —rejuvenates; —relaxes; —relieves; —renews; —slackens; —soothes; —stagnates; —unburdens.

Adverbs for Rest
ultimately; unsoundly; implicitly; perpetually; philosophically; impassively; ostentatiously; placidly; serenely; firmly; securely; listlessly; eternally; interminably.

Synonyms for Rest

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

Troponyms for Rest

 * sleep, nap

Antonyms for Rest

 * motion
 * activity

Hypernyms for Rest

 * bridge
 * arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest
 * breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest

Derived terms

 * arm rest
 * at rest
 * bed rest
 * breve rest
 * chin rest
 * crotchet rest
 * day of rest
 * demisemiquaver rest
 * elbow rest
 * foot rest
 * gun rest
 * head rest
 * hemidemisemiquaver rest
 * incisal rest
 * lay to rest
 * leg rest
 * minim rest
 * neck rest
 * parade rest
 * put to rest


 * quarter rest
 * quaver rest
 * rest area
 * rest day
 * rest energy
 * rest home
 * rest mass
 * rest period
 * rest position
 * rest stop
 * restful
 * restless
 * restroom
 * semibreve rest
 * semiquaver rest
 * tool rest/tool-rest
 * whole rest
 * wolffian rest
 * wrist rest
 * rest assured
 * rest in peace/RIP
 * rest on one's laurels
 * all the rest

Thesaurus
abeyance, abide, abide in, advocate, afterglow, afterimage, allay, annihilation, appease, arm, arrive, athletic supporter, awful silence, axis, back, backbone, backing, balance, bandeau, bane, base, basis, be based on, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be contingent on, be dependent on, be found, be left, be located, be predicated on, be present in, be situated, be still, bearer, bearing, bed, bed down, biological death, bottom, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, breve rest, butt, butt end, buttress, caesura, call a recess, calm, calm down, calmness, candle ends, cane, carrier, cease-fire, cervix, cessation, cessation of life, chaff, cigarette break, clinical death, coast, cocktail hour, coffee break, compose, composure, conduct pleadings, consist in, contemplation, continue to be, convenience, cool, corset, couch, count sheep, cradle, crook, crossing the bar, crutch, curl up, curtains, day off, dead, dead of night, death, death knell, deathlike silence, debris, debt of nature, decease, delay, demise, departure, depend, depend on, deposit, detritus, dissolution, do nothing, doom, doorstep, doss down, downtime, doze, dozing, drift, drop, dwell in, dying, ease, ease up, ebb of life, eighth rest, end, end of life, ending, enforced respite, eternal rest, even out, excess, exist in, exit, expiration, extinction, fag end, filings, final summons, finger of death, footing, footrest, footstep, forty winks, fossil, foundation, foundation garment, free time, freedom, freeze, fulcrum, girdle, go to bed, go to rest, go to sleep, going, going off, golden silence, goof-off time, grave, ground, groundwork, guy, half rest, halt, hand of death, hang, hang fire, hang on, happy hour, heel, hesitate, hesitation, hibernate, hinge, hinge on, hit the hay, hit the sack, holder, holdover, holiday, hush, hush of night, husks, idle, idle hours, idleness, imperturbability, inactivity, inaudibility, indolence, inhabit, inhere in, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, interruption, interval, jaws of death, jock, jockstrap, keep quiet, kip, knell, languish, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, lay, lay down, layoff, lean, leaving life, leavings, leftovers, leisure, let down, let up, letup, lie, lie athwart, lie by, lie dormant, lie down, lie in, lie on, lie still, lie with, loaf, loafing, lodge, loll, loss of life, lounge, lucid stillness, lull, mainstay, maintainer, make a plea, making an end, mark time, marmoreal repose, mast, minim, mollify, mum, nap, neck, nirvana, nod, noiselessness, not breathe, not budge, not stir, oarlock, odd moments, odds and ends, overage, pace, pacify, parings, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, pause, peace, peacefulness, perishing, pivot, place, placidity, placidness, plead, position, pour balm into, prop, put, put down, quarter rest, quell, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, rags, recess, recline, refuse, reinforce, reinforcement, relax, relaxation, release, relics, rely, remain, remain motionless, remainder, remains, remission, remnant, repose, repose in, reposit, reside, reside in, residual, residue, residuum, respite, rest in, rest on, rest with, restfulness, resting place, resting point, retirement, revolve on, reward, ride, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, rigging, riser, roach, rock to sleep, round, rowlock, rubbish, ruins, rump, rung, sack out, satori, sawdust, scale, scraps, seat, seating, sentence of death, serenity, set, set down, settle to rest, shades of death, shadow, shadow of death, shavings, shelf, shoulder, shroud, shut-eye, siesta, silence, silentness, silken repose, sit back, sit it out, sixteenth rest, slack off, slacken, sleep, slumber, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, snooze, snug down, solemn silence, somatic death, soothe, spare time, spell, spill, spine, spoke, sprawl, sprit, stabilize, staff, stagnate, stair, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand on, stand still, stand-down, standing rigging, stave, stay, stay put, steady, step, step stool, stepping-stone, stick, stick fast, stiffener, still, stillness, stop, stop for breath, straw, strengthener, stretch out, string, stubble, stump, subdue, subsist, subsist in, summons of death, superfluity, support, supporter, surcease, surplus, survival, survive, suspension, sweepings, tacitness, taciturnity, take, take a nap, take a recess, take a rest, take forty winks, take it easy, take life easy, tarry, tea break, thole, time, time off, time out, time to kill, time to spare, trace, tranquilize, tread, tread water, trestle, truce, turn on, turn up, turn upon, unbend, unwind, upholder, vacation, vegetate, vestige, wait and see, walking stick, waste, watch and wait, wise passiveness

Etymology

 * 1)  rest, from  rest, ræst, from  (cf. West Frisian rêst:, Dutch rust:,  Rast), pre-Germanic/Celtic *rosdh- (cf. Old Irish árus: 'dwelling'), from  'to rest' (cf. German Ruhe: 'calm', Welsh araf: 'quite, calm, gentle', Lithuanian rovà: 'calm', Ancient Greek ἐρωή:, Avestan undefined: 'calm, peaceful', Sanskrit रमते: 'he stays still, calms down'). Cf. Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃:
 * 2)  reste from  reste from 🇫🇴 rester (to remain) from  restare "to stay back, stay behind" from  (to stand). Replaced native  lave "rest, remainder" (from  lāf "remnant, remainder").

Noun

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 * Hebrew: מנוחה
 * Hindi: आराम
 * Japanese:


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 * Romanian: odihnă,
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 * Telugu: ఉపశమనము
 * Ukrainian: відпочинок
 * Urdu: آرام


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Verb

 * Arabic: استراح
 * Basque: atseden hartu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
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 * French: se reposer
 * German:
 * Greek:, ξεκουράζομαι
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: repozar


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 * Slovene: spočiti
 * Swedish: vila, låta vila


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 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: отдыхать (otdyχát'), отдохнуть (otdoχnút')


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: mirovati
 * Swedish:


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 * Russian: оставаться (ostavát's'a), остаться (ostát's'a)
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 * Finnish: nojata, tukea, asettaa nojalleen
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 * Greek: ακουμπώ
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 * Greek: ακουμπώ
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 * Dutch: daarbij laten
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Noun

 * Arabic: باقية, أثارة
 * Catalan: resta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 剩餘部分, 剩余部分,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: restaĵo
 * Finnish:
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 * Japanese: 残り
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: còrr
 * Slovene: ostanek
 * Spanish:, sobra
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మిగిలినవి (migilinavi), మిగిలినవారు (migilinavaaru) , మిగిలినది (migilinadi)
 * Ukrainian: решта

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: jäädä jäljelle, olla jäljellä


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 * German:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:


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 * Mandarin:
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 * Finnish: jättää jäljelle, olla
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:

Anagrams

 * erst

Noun

 * 1) rest that which remains

Anagrams

 * erts, ster

Adjective

 * 1) lazy

Synonyms

 * henye
 * lusta
 * tunya

Derived terms

 * a rest kétszer fárad

Noun

 * 1) rest
 * 2) resting place; bed

Etymology
From the Common Germanic root *rasto.

Noun

 * 1) rest

Noun
rest inv. (allows only the definite articled form for singular restul)


 * 1) change
 * Poftim restul de la îngheţată, băiete. — Here's your change from the ice-cream you bought, son.

Etymology
reste

Noun

 * 1) remainder, rest (what remains)
 * 2)  remainder
 * 11 dividerat med 2 är 5, med 1 i rest — 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1
 * 1) leftover