day of rest

1. 1.

   a day set aside for rest

   Synonymsrest day

   Broaderday of the week

   NarrowerSundaySabbath

Questions about day of rest

What does day of rest mean?

day of rest means "a day set aside for rest".

What is another word for day of rest?

Close synonyms include rest day. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is day of rest a common word?

day of rest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.