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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.

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

  1. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
    Synonyms: sleep, slumber

    I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.

    The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.

  2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
    Synonyms: break, repose, time off

    We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.

  3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
    Synonyms: peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility

    It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.

  4. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.

    The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain.

    The ocean was finally at rest.

    Now that we're all in agreement, we can put that issue to rest.

  5. (euphemistic, uncountable) 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")
    Synonym: peace

    She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.

  7. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
    Hyponyms: breve rest, demisemiquaver rest, hemidemisemiquaver rest, minim rest, quaver rest, semibreve rest, semiquaver rest

    Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.

  8. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
  10. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
    Antonym: motion

    The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.

  11. (snooker, countable) 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.
    Hypernym: bridge

    Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.

  12. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
    Synonyms: (of a telephone) cradle, support

    She put the phone receiver back in its rest.

    He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.

    Hyponyms: arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest
  13. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
  14. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
    • c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
      halfway houses and travellers' rests

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      in dust our final rest, and native home

  15. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
  16. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.

    • 1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs:

      a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest

  17. (dated) A set or game at tennis.

relief afforded by sleeping; sleep

relief from exertion; state of quiet and recreation

peace, freedom from trouble, tranquility

repose afforded by death

pause of a specified length in a piece of music

symbol indicating a pause in music

physics: absence of motion

object designed to be used to support something else

Translations to be checked

From Middle English resten, from Old English restan, from Proto-West Germanic *rastijan (“to rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with Dutch rusten (“to rest”), Middle Low German resten (“to rest”), German rasten (“to rest”), Danish raste (“to rest”), Swedish rasta (“to rest”).

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

  1. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.

    My day's work is over; now I will rest.

    I shall not rest until I have uncovered the truth.

  2. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
  3. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      There rest, if any rest can harbour there.

  4. (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.

    We need to rest the horses before we ride any further.

    • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

      With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.

  5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

    The blame seems to rest with your father.

  6. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.

    A column rests on its pedestal.

    I rested my head in my hands.

    She rested against my shoulder.

    I rested against the wall for a minute.

  7. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) 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.)

    The defense rests, your Honor.

    I rest my case.

  8. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
  9. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
  10. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
  11. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.

    The decision rests on getting a bank loan.

    • 1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo:

      On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.

    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

  12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

intransitive: take repose

stop working, become inactive

stay, remain, be situated

transitive: lean or lay (something)

intransitive: lie or lean or be supported

From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)).

rest (uncountable)

  2. (uncountable) That which remains.
    Synonyms: lave, remainder

    She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.

  3. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

    • 1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:

      Plato and the rest of the philosophers

    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

      Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

      The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.

    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

      Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.

    • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

      It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.

  4. (UK, finance) 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.

remainder

From Middle English resten, from Old French rester, from Latin restō.

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

  1. (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.

    You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.

    Rest you merry.

    ("Be glad, be joyful"; later: "Good luck to you.")
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.

    God rest you merry, gentlemen.

    ("May God grant you happiness and peace, gentlemen"; literally: "May God keep you happy and in peace, gentlemen.")

Aphetic form of arrest.

rest (third-person singular simple present rests, present participle resting, simple past and past participle rested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To arrest.

Derived from German Rest.

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛst]
  • Hyphenation: rest

rest m inan

  1. (mostly in plural) backlog, unfinished business
  2. arrear(s)
  • “rest”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “rest”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from French reste, probably via German Rest.

rest c (singular definite resten, plural indefinite rester)

  1. remnant, remainder, rest
  2. (in the plural) scraps of food
  3. (mathematics) residue, remainder

From Middle Dutch reste, from Middle French reste.

rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)

  1. rest (that which remains)
    Synonyms: overblijfsel, overschot

From a Northern Italian dialect, compare Emilian rest, Piedmontese rest, Romagnol rést, Italian resto (“rest”), from restare, from Latin restō (“I stay behind, remain”).

rest (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)

  1. lazy
    Synonyms: henye, lusta, renyhe, tunya

(Expressions):

  • rest in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

rest m (plural resc)

  1. rest, residue

Borrowed from French reste.

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural rester, definite plural restene)

  1. remainder, rest
    resten av ― the rest of
    rester ― remains, remnants

Borrowed from French reste.

rest m (definite singular resten, indefinite plural restar, definite plural restane)

  1. remainder, rest
    resten av ― the rest of
    restar ― remains, remnants

rest f

  1. Alternative form of ræst

Strong ō-stem:

Borrowed from French reste.

rest n (plural resturi)

  1. rest (remainder)

rest n (uncountable)

  1. change (small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination)

    Poftim restul de la înghețată, băiete.

    Here's the change from the ice-cream, son.
  • The use of the meaning for change is restrictive to money, usually in small sums, taken after making a transaction. To describe such change when it is in one's pocket or lying around, the term mărunțiș is preferred.
Declension of rest
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative rest restul
genitive-dative rest restului
vocative restule

Borrowed from French reste, from Latin restāre (“remain”).

rest c

  1. (in the plural) remainder, rest (what remains)

    Resten är gula.

    The rest are yellows.
  2. (mathematics) remainder
    11 dividerat med 2 är 5, med 1 i rest ― 11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1
  3. (chiefly in the plural) leftover

    Idag blir det rester

    Today we're having leftovers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rest

  1. past participle of resa

rest

  1. supine of resa