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ETERNAL REST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eternal rest mean? 

ETERNAL REST (noun)
  The noun ETERNAL REST has 1 sense:

1. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)play

  Familiarity information: ETERNAL REST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ETERNAL REST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eternal rest; eternal sleep; quietus; rest; sleep

Context example:

they had to put their family pet to sleep

Hypernyms ("eternal rest" is a kind of...):

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)


 Context examples 


Therefore, I, on my part, give up here the certainty of eternal rest, and go out into the dark where may be the blackest things that the world or the nether world holds!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of death to go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so that the poor clay might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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