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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kouch, IPA^(key): /ka?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English couche, cowche, from Old French couche, from the verb (see below). Doublet of cwtch.

Alternative forms

• cowch (obsolete)

Noun

couch (plural couches)

1. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
2. A bed, a resting-place.
3. The den of an otter.
4. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
5. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
6. (metonymically, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.

   He spent years on the couch going over his traumatic childhood.

Synonyms

• (item of furniture): davenport, divan, settee, sofa

Hyponyms

• (item of furniture): chesterfield, daybed, love seat

Coordinate terms

• (item of furniture): armchair, banquette

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Couch

Translations

Further reading

• couch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wing chair

Etymology 2

From Middle English couchen, from Old French (se) couchier, (se) colchier (“to go to bed”), from Latin colloc? (“to place, to set in order, to assemble, to settle”), from com- (“together, with”) + loc? (“to put, to place, to set”). Doublet of collocate.

Alternative forms

• cowch (obsolete)

Verb

couch (third-person singular simple present couches, present participle couching, simple past and past participle couched)

1. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

   Synonyms: lie down, recline
2. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 606546721, book III, canto I, stanza IV; republished as The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, volume II, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over against Catherine-street in the Strand, 1715, OCLC 645789119, page 368:

     At la?t, as thro an open Plain they yode, / They ?py'd a Knight, that towards pricked fair, / And him be?ide an aged Squire there rode, / That ?eem'd to couch under his Shield three-?quare, / As if that Age bad him that Burden ?pare, / And yield it tho?e that ?touter could it wield: […]
3. (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
4. (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
   • 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, or Is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things, volume I, London: Printed by R[oger] Norton for Walter Kettilby, OCLC 12330969, book I; republished as The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes which it Hath Already Undergone, or Is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things. The Two First Books Concerning the Deluge, and Concerning Paradise, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Printed for R[oger] N[orton] for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1697, OCLC 228725686, page 56:

     [T]he Sea and the Land make one Globe, and the waters couch them?elves, as clo?e as may be, to the Center of this Globe in a Spherical convexity; ?o that if all the Mountains and Hills were ?cal'd, and the Earth made even, the Waters would not overflow its ?mooth ?urface; […]

5. (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
   • 1627, Francis Bacon, “VIII. Century”, in Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie: in Ten Centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo[rd] Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors Death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late His Lordships Chaplaine, London: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland and Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee at the Turks Head in Fleet-street, next to the Miter, OCLC 606502643; republished as Sylva Sylvarvm: or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centvries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors Death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, One of His Majesties Chaplaines. Hereunto is now Added an Alphabeticall Table of the Principall Things Contained in the Whole Worke, London: Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by John Williams, 1635, OCLC 606502717, page 197:

     It is, at this Day, in u?e, in Gaza, to couch Pot-Sheards or Ve??els of Earth, in their Walls, to gather the Wind from the top, and to pa??e it downe in Spouts into Roomes. It is a Device for Fre?hne??e, in great Heats; […]

6. (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 606546721, book III, canto V, stanza III; republished as The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, volume II, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over against Catherine-street in the Strand, 1715, OCLC 645789119, page 240:

     And fairly couching his ?teel-headed Spear, / Him fir?t ?aluted with a ?turdy Stroke: / It booted nought Sir Guyon, coming near, / To think ?uch hideous Pui??ance on foot to bear.

   • 1805, Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh; by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, OCLC 1250572, canto III, stanza V; 2nd edition, London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh; by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1805, OCLC 928165697, page 76:

     Stout Deloraine nor sighed, nor prayed, / Nor saint, nor ladye, called to aid: / But he stooped his head, and couched his spear, / And spurred his steed to full career. / The meeting of these champions proud / Seemed like the bursting thunder-cloud.

7. (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
8. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
9. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
10. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

    Synonyms: explain, express, phrase, term
11. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
    • 1832, Isaac Taylor, “The State of Sacred Science: ‘Thy Testimonies are My Meditation’”, in Saturday Evening, London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 262702496; republished Hingham, Mass.: Published by C. & E. B. Gill [...], 1833, OCLC 191249371, page 91:

      […] Or who, regardless of the powers of calumny that keep their state as ministers of vengeance around the throne of ancient Prejudice, explores anew the half-hidden, half-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture?

Alternative forms

• cowch (obsolete)

Derived terms

• couchedness
• couch a hogshead
• recouch
• uncouched

Translations

Etymology 3

From quitch, from Old English cwice.

Noun

couch (uncountable)

1. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

Translations

Further reading

• couch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elymus repens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: wrest

Etymology 1

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English rest, ræst (“rest, quiet, freedom from toil, repose, sleep, resting-place, a bed, couch, grave”), from Proto-Germanic *rast?, *rastij? (“rest”), 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 ???? (er??, “rest, respite”), Avestan ????????????????????????? (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit ???? (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic ???????????????????? (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

Noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

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

   Synonyms: sleep, slumber

2. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.

   Synonyms: break, repose, time off

3. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

   • And the land had rest fourscore years.

   Synonyms: peace, quiet, roo, silence, stillness, tranquility

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

5. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.

   Synonym: peace

6. (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

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

   Antonym: motion

9. (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

10. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.

    Synonyms: (of a telephone) cradle, support

    Hyponyms: arm rest, elbow rest, foot rest, head rest, leg rest, neck rest, wrist rest

11. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.

    • their visors closed, their lances in the rest

12. 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
13. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
14. 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

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

Antonyms

• activity

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English resten, from Old English restan (“to rest, cease from toil, be at rest, sleep, rest in death, lie dead, lie in the grave, remain unmoved or undisturbed, be still, rest from, remain, lie”), 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”).

Verb

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.
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.
4. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

     And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.
5. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.

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

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.)

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.
    • 1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo

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

12. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

    • to rest in Heaven's determination

Synonyms

• (lie down and take repose, especially by sleeping): relax
• (give rest to): relieve
• (stop working): have a breather, pause, take a break, take time off, take time out
• (be situated): be, lie, remain, reside, stay
• (transitive: lean, lay): lay, lean, place, put
• (intransitive: lie, lean): lean, lie

Troponyms

• (lie down and take repose): nap, sleep

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

rest (uncountable)

2. (uncountable) That which remains.

   Synonyms: lave, remainder

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

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

4. (Britain, 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.

Synonyms

• (that which remains): See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

• all the rest

Translations

Verb

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.

   ("Be glad, be joyful"; later: "Good luck to you.")

2. (transitive, obsolete) To keep a certain way.

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

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

Aphetic form of arrest.

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• -estr-, -ster, -ster-, ERTs, SERT, TERs, erst, estr-, rets, tres

Czech

Etymology

From German Rest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?st]
• Hyphenation: rest

Noun

rest m inan

1. (mostly in plural) backlog, unfinished business
2. arrear(s)

Declension

Further reading

• rest in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rest in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• setr

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste, probably via German Rest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??asd?], [???sd?]
• Homophone: rast

Noun

rest c (singular definite resten, plural indefinite rester)

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

Derived terms

• forresten
• madrest
• restgæld
• restlager
• restklasse

References

• “rest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch reste, from Middle French reste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/
• Hyphenation: rest
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

rest f (plural resten, diminutive restje n)

1. rest (that which remains)

   Synonyms: overblijfsel, overschot

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: res

Anagrams

• erts, ster

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??t]
• Hyphenation: rest
• Rhymes: -??t

Adjective

rest (comparative restebb, superlative legrestebb)

1. lazy

   Synonyms: henye, lusta, renyhe, tunya

Declension

Derived terms

• restell
• restség

(Expressions):

• a rest kétszer fárad

Further reading

• rest in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ladin

Noun

rest m (plural resc)

1. rest, residue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Noun

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

1. remainder, rest

Derived terms

• forresten
• matrest

References

• “rest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Noun

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

1. remainder, rest

Derived terms

• forresten
• matrest

References

• “rest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rast?, *rastij? (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rest/

Noun

rest f

1. rest
2. resting place; bed

Derived terms

• restl?as

Descendants

• Middle English: reste, rest; (rüst, rist)
  • Scots: rest
  • English: rest

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rest/

Noun

rest n (plural resturi)

1. rest (remainder)

Declension

See also

• r?mas, r?m??i??

Noun

rest (definite singular restul)

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

Usage notes

• 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 m?run?i? is preferred.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

rest c

1. (plural only) remainder, rest (what remains)

2. (mathematics) remainder

3. leftover

Declension

Verb

rest

1. supine of resa.
2. past participle of resa.

Anagrams

• ters

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hreistr.

Noun

rest m

1. fish scales

Related terms

• res

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rísta (pret. reist).

Verb

rest

1. to plough
2. to carve

Noun

rest m

1. a plough