rest period

1. 1.

   a pause for relaxation

   “people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests”

   Synonymsrespiterestrelief

   Broaderpause

   Narrowerbreath

Questions about rest period

What does rest period mean?

rest period means "a pause for relaxation".

What is another word for rest period?

Close synonyms include respite, rest, relief. 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 rest period a common word?

rest period 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.