whole rest

1. 1.

   a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time

   Broaderrest

Questions about whole rest

What does whole rest mean?

whole rest means "a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time".

Is whole rest a common word?

whole 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.