rest-cure

1. 1.

   rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.

   Broadertreatment

Questions about rest-cure

What does rest-cure mean?

rest-cure means "rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.".

How many syllables are in rest-cure?

rest-cure has 2 syllables and divides as rest--cure under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is rest-cure a common word?

rest-cure 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.