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)

1. (euphemistic) A place where one is buried or laid to rest; a tomb.
   • 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: Queen Victoria's Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:

     The Western Region station [at Windsor] has seen many arrivals and departures of monarchs, some returning to their last resting place at Frogmore Mausoleum.

   • 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.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see resting,‎ place. A place where one rests or may rest.

Translations

place where one rests or may rest

• Finnish: lepopaikka, leposija (fi)
• French: lieu de repos m
• German: Ruheplatz (de) m
• Serbo-Croatian: odmorište (sh) n

place where one is buried

• Finnish: leposija (fi)
• French: dernière demeure (fr) f
• German: Ruhestätte (de) f, Ruhestatt (de) f
• Hungarian: végső nyughely, sírhely (hu)

References

• “resting place”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.