resting place
English
Alternative forms
- resting-place (less common)
Etymology
From Middle English restyng place, restingplace, rystynge-place, restynge place, equivalent to resting + place.
Noun
resting place (plural resting places)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see resting, place. A place where one rests or may rest.
- (euphemistic) A place where one is buried or laid to rest; a tomb.
- 2020 June 17, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Robert Stephenson's steam-age bridges”, in Rail, page 46:
- That [Robert] Stephenson's final resting place is in Westminster Abbey, along civil engineering great Thomas Telford, signifies his importance.
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Translations
place where one rests or may rest
References
- “resting place”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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