rest – English noun declension

English noun forms of rest

Noun: rest
Singularrest
Pluralrests

Sample Sentences

  • I need to get a good rest tonight; I was up late last night.
  • The sun sets, and the workers go to their rest.
  • We took a rest at the top of the hill to get our breath back.
  • It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.
  • And the land had rest fourscore years. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:30:]
  • 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.
  • She was laid to rest in the village cemetery.
  • Remember there's a rest at the end of the fourth bar.
  • The body's centre of gravity may affect its state of rest.
  • Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.
  • She put the phone receiver back in its rest.
  • He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.
  • their visors closed, their lances in the rest [1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times
  • halfway houses and travellers' rests
  • in dust our final rest, and native home [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:]
  • Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy xii:9:]
  • a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest [1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *rastō
3. Proto-West Germanic *rastu
4. Old English ræst
5. Middle English reste
6. English rest
7. From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, of uncertain origin; possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to rest”) or *Hre(h₁)s- (“to flow, rush”). 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'rest', Old English Nouns 'ræst', Dutch Nouns 'rust', German Nouns 'Rast', Swedish Nouns 'rast', German Nouns 'Ruhe', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἐρωή', Gothic Nouns '𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "rest"

Dutch Nouns rust, Finnish Nouns resti.