rest
/ɹɛst/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.23 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example 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."
- "The boulder came to rest just behind the house after rolling down the mountain."
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, 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɛst/
- British English: /ɹɛst/
Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- Dated
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- British usage
- Obsolete
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
RST
ReST