Repose

Definition: Repose

Repose

Noun

1. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool".

2. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.

3. A disposition free from stress or emotion.

Verb

1. Put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people".

2. Be inherent or innate in;.

3. Lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum".

4. Lie in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch".

5. Put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed".

6. To put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King".

7. Be at rest.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "repose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Repose

Belief

Give one credit for; confide in, believe in, put one's trust in; place in, repose in, implicit confidence in; take one's word for, at one's word; place reliance on, rely upon, swear by, regard to.

Cessation

Hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels.

Evidence

Rest upon, depend upon; repose on.

Inaction

Inactivity; rest; (repose); quiescence; want of occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente; sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job; soft snap, soft thing.

Leisure

Verb: have leisure; Noun: take one's time, take one's leisure, take one's ease; repose; move slowly; while away the time; (inaction); be master of one's time, be an idle man.

Quiescence

Verb: be quiescent; Adjective: stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath.

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Quiet, tranquility, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep; (inactivity).

Repose

Verb: repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease, take it easy.

Noun: repose, rest, silken repose; sleep.

Support

Verb: be supported; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on; have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle.

Crosswords: Repose

French (rests).

Books

• Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) (reference)

• Angle Of Repose Part 1 Of 2 (reference)

• Earth and Reveries of Repose (reference)

• Mistress Masham's Repose (reference)

• Power Through Repose (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The X-Files Boxed Set - V.5 (The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, War of The Coprophages, Nisei, 731) (reference)

• Therese Schroeder-Sheker: Chalice of Repose (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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A Navy Nurse offers a word of encouragement to a patient about to leave the ship for further treatment in the United States, October 1967. Repose was then operating in the South China Sea, a few miles south of the Seventeenth Parallel off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam. Photographed by JOC R.D. Moeser. Credit: NAVY.

Repose. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand requiem mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Friday, January 16, for the repose of the souls of the officers and men of the Irish brigade killed in the war. Credit: Library of Congress.

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His countenance, in this repose, was mild and kindly

He was not accustomed to give many hours to repose.

He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose.

The repose is never complete

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Human Rights

India

By year's end, there has been no repose to the inquiry. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Repose

Repose

Expressions using "repose": Angle of repose ♦ in repose ♦ Mount Repose ♦ repose in ♦ repose on ♦ repose oneself ♦ repose sleep ♦ repose trust in ♦ rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels ♦ silken repose ♦ the foundations repose on rock. Additional references.

Beginning with "repose": repose-figures, repose-statue.

Afrikaans

rus (rest, Russian). (various references)

Albanian

themeloj (constitute, establish, float, found, institute, lay the foundations of, open, plant, set up), prehje (escape), prehem (bask, hibernate, rest), përkrahem, mbështetem në, mbështetem (count on, depend, recline, rely, rest), gjumë (doss, dreamland, rest, shut eye, sleep, slumber), bie të fle (drop off, fall asleep, go to sleep, go to the bad), çlodhje (diversion, ease, recreation, recuperation, refreshment, relaxation, reposal, rest), çlodhem (recreate, relax, rest, take a rest), çlodh (recreate, recuperate, rest, wind). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏سكون (calmness, easement, hush, inactivity, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietude, remission, rest, sedation, sleep, still, stillness, tranquillity), ‏سند (back, backlog, bolster, instrument, obligation, policy, prop, script, shore, support, sustenance), ‏طمأنينة (quietism, rest, tranquility), ‏إستند (carry forward, lean, lean on, rest), ‏إسترخاء (prolate, relaxation), ‏إستراحة (break, breather, lounge, rest, silence, standoff, stoppage, subsidence), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, recuperate, refresh, rest, set at rest, stand at ease, subside), ‏إعتمد (bank on, build, count on, depend, expect, lean, reckon, reckon on, rely, trustee), ‏إطمئنان (content, contentment, unconcern), ‏إضطجع (lie, lie down, recline), ‏رقد, ‏راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, leisure, letup, lie, pause, recuperation, relief, rest, stop), ‏رباطة جأش (aplomb, collection, composure, coolness, equanimity, nonchalance, philosophy, phlegm, placidity, poise, self possession). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сън (bye bye, doss, dream, kip, sleep), уверност, самообладание (countenance, equanimity, grip, nerve, restraint, self control, self possession, self-command, self-mastery, temper, willpower), спокойствие (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, ease, easiness, immovability, impassivity, imperturbability, peace, placidity, poise, quiet, quietness, quietude, rest, security, serenity, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), спирам се (determine, draw bit, dwell on, enlarge, jib, pull up, rest, stand, stay, stop), хармонии, основан съм, отморявам, отдих (leisure, relaxation, reprieve, respite, rest, truce), лежа (couch, lain, lie, lie down, range, rest, set, sit), почивка (break, intermission, interval, respite, rest, time off, time out), почивам си (rest, take a rest), почивам (pass away, pass on, rest), покой (calm, ease, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietude, rest, slumber), полагам (lay, place, put, put forth, put out, replace, rest, run). (various references)

Chinese 

讌 (advice, counsels, feast), 歇息, 宴 (feast). (various references)

Czech

spoléhat (rely, rest, trust), spoèívat (reside, rest), položit (lay, lay down, pose, prostrate, put, put down, set, superimpose), odpoèinek (relaxation, rest, stop), odpoèívat (lave, lie, recline, rest), klid (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, rest, serenity, stand, standstill, still, stillness, tranquillity). (various references)

Danish

ro (rest, row), hvile (rest). (various references)

Dutch

rusten (rest). (various references)

Esperanto

ripozo (rest), ripozi (rest). (various references)

Faeroese

hvíla seg (rest). (various references)

Farsi 

گذاردن (Imprint, Invest, Lay, Pose, Set), غنودن (Nuzzle, Snug), سامان (Order), اسودگی (Comfort, Convenience, Ease, Leisure, Relief), استراحت (Breather, Relaxation, Respite, Rest), ارمیدن (Rest), درازکشیدن . (various references)

Finnish

levätä (have a rest, rest). (various references)

French

se reposer (rest, rest up), repos (recess, recovery, recreations, recuperation, rest). (various references)

Frisian

rêst (rest). (various references)

German

ruhen (be abed, be asleep, be buried, be in abeyance, be laid down, be quiet, be supported, be suspended, cease, lie, rest, stand idle, stop, to rest, tranquilnesses), Ruhe (be quiet, calm, calmness, hush, order, peace, peacefulness, placidity, privacy, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, reposefulness, rest, restfulness, retirement, sereneness, silence, smoothness, steadiness, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, tranquilness). (various references)

Greek 

στηρίζομαι (abut, count on, lean, lean on, perch, rest), εμπιστεύομαι (commit, confide, consign, entrust, intrust, trust, vasty, vest), ανάπαυση (cosiness, ease, leisure, quietus, relaxation, reposal, respite, rest), αναπαύω (comfort, rest), αναπαύομαι (have a rest, relax, rest). (various references)

Hawaiian

çlodh (rest). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרגוע (pacifying, rest), מנוחה (ease, quiet, relaxing, rest, resting place, tranquillity), לשכב (lie, lie down, recline), לרגוע (be calm, relax, rest), לנוח (lie, lie down, rest), לנפוש (relax, rest), נפישה (rest), נחת (calm, contentment, ease, gratification, mildness, peace, quiet, rest, satisfaction, tranquillity). (various references)

Hungarian

pihenés (break, bunk fatigue, halt, recreation, refreshing, relaxation, respite, rest, slack), nyugalom (calm, calmness, complacence, complacency, composure, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, peace, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, respite, rest, serenity, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, tranquilness, whist), nyugalmi helyzet (home position). (various references)

Indonesian

istirahat (pause, recess, relaxation). (various references)

Italian

riposo (quietness, refreshment, relaxation, rest, rest period), riposarsi (rest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

静止　 (standing still, stillness), 静止 (standing still, stillness), 安息 (rest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), あんそく (rest). (various references)

Korean 

휴식 (Pausing, Resting). (various references)

Malay

aso ... mengaso (rest). (various references)

Manx

soit er (attacked, intent), soiaghey (beset, determine, fix, implant, incursion, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, place, plant, posture, seat, set, set up, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize), saveenys (drowsiness, lethargy, somnolence), lhie (dovetail, hang, lay, lie, lie down, setting, settle, settling, squat), gow saveenys. (various references)

Norwegian

hvile (rest). (various references)

Papiamen

deskanso (rest), deskansá (rest). (various references)

Pig Latin

eposeray.(various references)

Polish

wypoczywać (rest). (various references)

Portuguese

repouso (lying, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, rest, time-out), descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, lay-over, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow-block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time-out, touch-down, truce), descansar (breathe, doss, halt, lie by, lounge, recess, respire, rest, sleep, take a rest, unyoke). (various references)

Romanian

repaus (easy, quiet, rest, sleep, spell, truce), stare (class, condition, estate, fortune, humor, humour, keep, plight, posture, property, rank, remaining, rest, situation, sort, standing, state, station, way, wealth), somn (Bedfordshire, bye bye, kip, rest, sleep), se sprijini (abut, bear on, depend on, go on, go upon, hang, recline), se odihni (fetch breath, lounge, refresh, relax, rest, take a rest, take one's ease), se bizui (presume upon, rest, stand), pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, cause, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay on, lay up, Mount, place, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put on, put up, set, sow, stick), odihni (relax, rest, sleep, slumber, stand), odihnã (calm, comfort, ease, pause, peace, refreshment, relaxation, reposal, rest, restfulness, sleep), linişte (calm, calmness, composure, ease, easiness, hist, hush, lull, pax, peace, placidity, q.t., quiet, quietness, quietude, rest, serenity, silence, sobriety, soft, still, stillness, stop talking, temper, tranquillity), avea încredere în (put trust in, rely on, repose trust in, trust), armonie (accord, agreement, chime, concert, concord, consonance, escutcheon, harmony, keeping, key, peace, tune, unison, unity), a-şi odihni (loll), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, bestow, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down, place, position, put, put down, put on, seat, set, settle, situate, stack, stand, stick, Stow, subside). (various references)

Russian 

отдыхать (lay off, relax, rest, resting, take a holiday). (various references)

Scottish

sìochaint (peace, quiet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

položiti (ground, lay, lay down, pay down, set down), polagati (lay, place, string, take), počivati (rest), počinak (rest), odmor (break, caesura, holiday, intermission, pastime, pause, quiet, recess, reposal, respite, rest, vacation), odmarati se (rest, sit back), ležati (lie, lie down, sit). (various references)

Spanish

descansar (diversify, lay over, lie, lie up, recline, rest, take a rest, think over), reposo (distraction, doss, interlude, landing, quiet), descanso (at ease, break, breather, breathing space, decree, distraction, diversion, encampment, flop, half time, holidays, interlude, intermission, interval, landing, let up, pause, recess, relaxation, rest, stand at ease, tease, time out, travel). (various references)

Swedish

vila (abeyance, be in abeyance, lie, recline, recumbency, rest), ro (oar, peace, pull, quietness, quietude, rest, row, scull, tranquility, tranquillity). (various references)

Tagalog

pahingá (rest), magpahingá (rest). (various references)

Turkish

yatmak (bang, be couched, couch, go to bed, go to sleep, have a screw, hit the hay, hit the sack, incline, kip, kip down, lay, lay oneself down, lie, lie down, lie up, recline, repose oneself, rest, sleep with, turn in), yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, fund, incline, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, place, put to bed, put to sleep, repose on, shelter, sink, subscribe), yaslanmak (lean, recline, repose on, rest, rest against, sit back), uyku (bye bye, dorm-, nap, rest, shuteye, sleep, sleeping, slumbers), sessizlik (hush, muteness, mutism, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, silence, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnity), sükunet (hush, languor, lull, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, still, tranquility, tranquillity), güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, build, calculate, confide, confide in, count on, credit, depend, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, go on, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose in, rest on, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), ebedi istirahatte olmak (rest), dinlenmek (lie back, lie up, recreate oneself, relax, repose oneself, rest, sit back, take a rest), dinlenme (breathing space, recreation, recumbency, relaxation, respite, rest), dinlendirmek (let rest, recreate, resettle, rest), dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand). (various references)

Turkmen 

rahatlyk (rest), ynjalyk (peace, rest), tapa (rest). (various references)

Ukrainian

спокій (balance, calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, easiness, impassivity, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, requiescence, rest, serene, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity), грунтуватися (rest), відпочивати (lie by, lounge, rest, take a rest), відпочинок (bait, blow, comfort, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, resource, rest, sabbath, vacation), невимушеність (abandon, abandonment, ease, informality, negligence), покоїтися (rest). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thư thái (light-hearted), sự nghỉ ngơi (refreshment, rest, slack). (various references)

Welsh

ymorffwys (rest), gorffwys (rest). (various references)

Yucatec

he'lel (rest). (various references)

Zulu

-phumula (rest). (various references)

adquiescamus, adquiescas, adquiesce, adquiescens, adquiescent, adquiescentes, adquiescentibus, adquiescere, adquiesceret, adquiesces, adquiescet, adquiescit, adquiescunt, adquieverint, adquieverunt, adquievi, adquievisti, adquievit, adquievitque, otium, quiêtem, quies, requies, requiescere, requietionem, requietionis, requietum, silentium. (various references)

repausare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "repose": reposed, reposeful, reposefully, reposefulness, reposefulnesses, reposer, reposers, reposes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Repose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epose, ragose, rebase, rebose, rempose, reoise, reopse, repo, repoke, repomen, reponse, repore, repos, Reposo, reposte, repousse, repps, reprose, Repse, repsoe, repude, repuise, rerose, respose, resposi, Rinpoche, Riposo, Rupolei, Tregoze, tryptose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: erose, peers, perse, pores, poser, prees, prese, prose, repos, ropes, speer, spore, spree.

-2 letters: epos, eros, opes, ores, peer, pees, peso, pore, pose, pree, pros, rees, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, seep, seer, sere, sore.

-3 letters: ere, ers, oes, ope, ops, ore, ors, ose, pee, per, pes, pro, ree, rep, res, roe, see.

+1 letter: deposer, elopers, exposer, leprose, openers, operose, reopens, reposed, reposer, reposes, respoke.

+2 letters: compeers, comperes, deplores, deposers, dopester, emperors, empowers, espouser, espresso, euphroes, exospore, explores, exposers, exposure, expresso, eyedrops, gospeler, isoprene, moperies, oosphere, operates, overstep, parolees, peoplers, personae, pioneers, poetiser, poetries, poperies, precodes, premorse, prescore, proceeds, proettes, promisee, propenes, propense, protease, proteges, proteose, recopies, reexpose, reimpose, reoppose, reposers, repousse, repowers, reprobes, reproves, respoken, response, roperies, serotype, superego, treetops.