Synonym: balance, ease, lounge, pause, recess, recline, relaxation, remains, repose, residue. Antonym: motion, unrest, work. Similar words: forest, rest on, arrest, for the rest, restore, restrict, interest, interested. Meaning: [rest] 
n. 1. something left after other parts have been taken away 2. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) 3. a pause for relaxation 4. a state of inaction 5. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) 6. a support on which things can be put 7. a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration. v. 1. not move; be in a resting position 2. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax 3. give a rest to 4. have a place in relation to something else 5. be at rest 6. stay the same; remain in a certain state 7. be inherent or innate in; 8. put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying 9. sit, as on a branch 10. rest on or as if on a pillow 11. be inactive, refrain from acting.
n. 1. something left after other parts have been taken away 2. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) 3. a pause for relaxation 4. a state of inaction 5. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) 6. a support on which things can be put 7. a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration. v. 1. not move; be in a resting position 2. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax 3. give a rest to 4. have a place in relation to something else 5. be at rest 6. stay the same; remain in a certain state 7. be inherent or innate in; 8. put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying 9. sit, as on a branch 10. rest on or as if on a pillow 11. be inactive, refrain from acting. 1. Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest. 
2. No rest for the wicked.
3. Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.
4. A change is as good as a rest.
5. Rest breeds rust.
6. Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
7. He that would live in peace and rest must hear and see, and say the best.
8. He stopped work and took a rest.
9. Her cheek came to rest against my shoulder.
10. Let's put it aside and have a rest.
11. Let him alone. He needs a rest.
12. I want to rest for a while.
13. I'm going to take a rest.
14. Her heartbeat is only 55 at rest.
15. Let's have a rest and then we'll try again.
16. May I use the rest room?
17. He revived after a rest and some food.
18. My aunt always takes her rest at nine.
19. It is time to go to rest.
20. They both wanted to have a rest.
21. You may rest assured that .....
22. I want to rest a while.
23. A brief rest restored the traveler's vigor.
24. If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness[Sentencedict.com], and moderate diet.
25. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
26. A change of work is as good as a rest.
27. If one sheep leap over the dyke[sentencedict.com/rest.html], all the rest will follow.
28. No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
29. An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day.
30. To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
More similar words: forest, rest on, arrest, for the rest, restore, restrict, interest, interested, restriction, interesting, lose interest, prestidigitation, test, zest, best, nest, quest, west, guest, chest, at best, priest, had best, request, modest, invest, estate, earnest, conquest, testing.