rest house

1. 1.

   a building used for shelter by travelers (especially in areas where there are no hotels)

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Questions about rest house

What does rest house mean?

rest house means "a building used for shelter by travelers (especially in areas where there are no hotels)".

Is rest house a common word?

rest house 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.