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Rest Home

Definition: Rest Home

Rest Home

Noun

1. An institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly".

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


Synonyms: Rest Home

Synonyms: home (n), nursing home (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rest Home

English words defined with "rest home": homing pigeonTo keep good. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rest home": Kenno. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Rest Home

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Rest Home

AuthorQuotation

Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rest Home

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  rest home

60
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rest Home

Language Translations for "rest home"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏منتجع (resort, rest house, sanatorium, sanitarium, spa), ‏مراح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

старчески дом, почивен дом (day care center, day care centre). (various references)

   

French

  

maison de repos (resthouse, resting-place). (various references)

   

German

  

pflegeheim (foster home, hospice, nursing home, sheltered flat, sheltered housing accommodation), altersheim (almshouse, old people´s home, old people's home, old-age home). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית "ברא" (sanitarium). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szanatórium (convalescent hospital, nursing home, sanatorium, sanitaria, sanitarium). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pensionato (annuitant, boarding house, hostel, old age pensioner, on pension, pensioner, retired, retired employe, retired employee, retired person). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

保養所 (sanatorium). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ほようしょ (sanatorium), ほようじょ (sanatorium). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estray omehay

   

Portuguese

  

casa de repouso (convalescent home, nursing home), asilo (asylum, franchise, home, refuge, shelter, workhouse). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

casã de odihnã (holiday home). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дом отдыха. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

casa de reposo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ålderdomshem (almshouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

huzurevi (eventide home, home for the aged, nursing home). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rest Home

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: theorems.

Words within the letters "e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: emoters, heteros, meteors, mothers, remotes, smother, theorem, thermes, thermos.

-2 letters: emoter, emotes, ethers, hereto, heroes, hetero, homers, horste, merest, meteor, meters, metres, metros, mosher, mother, others, rehems, remote, reshoe, reshot, retems, stereo, themes, theres, therme, therms, threes, throes.

-3 letters: emote, erose, ester, ether, ethos, hemes, heres, herms, heros, hoers, homer, homes, horse, horst.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: comethers, heartsome, ohmmeters, smothered, thermoses, thermoset, threesome.

 

+2 letters: atmosphere, bothersome, ectotherms, endotherms, hammertoes, heteronyms, hypsometer, motherless, nethermost, resmoothed, rheometers, stenotherm, stepmother, thermosets, threesomes.

 

+3 letters: atmosphered, atmospheres, earthmovers, foremothers, hatemongers, heartsomely, hectometers, heliometers, hemipterous, heteroatoms, heteroecism, homeotherms, homesteader, homestretch, housemaster, housemother, hydrometers, hygrometers, hypsometers, metanephros, motherhouse, nephrostome, overmatches, photometers, somewhither, spherometer, stenotherms, stepmothers, tachometers, thermopiles, thermoscope, thermotaxes, whoremaster.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rest Home


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 74      48 6F 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 0074      0048 006F 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52718586242817971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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