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repose

Syllables: re·poseUK/ɹɪˈpəʊz//ɹəˈpoʊz/

repose verb: to lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.

repose: to lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest
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Verb (1)

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

  1. (also, archaic, figuratively, transitive) To lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.
    • The Sea-god Glaucus […] Repoſd his head vpon my faintfull knée: […]1589, Thomas Lodge, “The Most Pithie and Pleasant Historie of Glaucus and Silla”, in Scillaes Metamorphosis: Enterlaced with the Unfortunate Loue of Glaucus. […], London: […] Richard Jhones, […]...
    • I could mock the ſultry Toil, / VVhen on my Charmer's Breaſt repos'd.1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene vi, page 17
  2. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) To rest (oneself), especially by going to sleep.
    • Now may I repoſe me; Cuſtance is mine owne.c. 1552 (date written), Nicholas Udall, [Ralph Roister Doister], [London]: [s.n.], published 1566?; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Roister Doister. […] (English Reprints), London: Muir &...
    • In peace and honour reſt you here my ſonnes, / Roomes readieſt Champions, repoſe you here in reſt, / Secure from vvorldly chaunces and miſhaps: […]c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas...
  3. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) Followed by from or (obsolete) of: to cause (oneself) to take a rest from some activity; also, to allow (oneself) to recover from some activity.
    • [A]lthough they ſeme as holidaymenne, to repoſe theymſelfes from all corporall buſineſſe: yet they dooe more good then the others, becauſe they doe the thyng moſt chiefly requiſite to be doen.1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Ghospell of S. Luke. The .x. Chapter.”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., The...
    • [S]he begged I vvould retire into a chamber, and repoſe myſelf from the uncommon fatigues I muſt have undergone; […]1753, [Tobias Smollett], “The History of the Noble Castilian”, in The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, page 175
  4. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To give (someone) rest; to refresh (someone) by giving rest.
    • [H]ave ye chos'n this place / After the toyl of Battel to repoſe / Your wearied vertue, for the eaſe you find / To ſlumber here, as in the Vales of Heav'n?1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • VVhoſe Cauſe-vvay parts the vale vvith ſhady rovvs? / VVhoſe ſeats the vveary Traveller repoſe? / VVho feeds yon Alms-houſe, neat, but void of ſtate, / VVhere Age and VVant ſit ſmiling at the gate?1733 (indicated as 1732), [Alexander] Pope, Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 13
  5. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To cause (oneself) to have faith in or rely on someone or something.
    • That he conſents, if VVarvvicke yeeld conſent, / For on thy fortune I repoſe my ſelfe.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • I come to your houſe; I riſk my life; I paſs it in ennui; I repoſe myſelf on your fidelity; […]1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Our Guest Quits Us as Not Being Hospitable Enough”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 277
  6. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To give (someone) accommodation for the night.
  7. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.
    • Though then, the Lords deep VViſedome, to this day, / VVork in the VVorlds vncertain-certain Svvay: / Yet muſt vve credit that his hand compos'd / All in ſix Dayes, and that He then Repos'd; / By his example, giving vs beheſt, / On the Seaventh Day for evermore to Reſt.1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Seaventh Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and...
    • If you be pleas'd, retire into my Cell, / And there repoſe, a turne or tvvo, […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    1. (also, figuratively, intransitive, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To die, to rest in peace.
      • Simon reposed in the year 1287.
      • Lord Jesus, who at the hour of Compline reposedst in the tomb, and wast bewailed by thy most sorrowful Mother, and by other women; make us, we beseech thee, with true tears, to bewail thy most holy Passion, and never to give place to the things by which thou wouldst be crucified again.[1850], James Merlo Horstius, “Litany of the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ”, in [anonymous], transl., The Paradise of the Christian Soul, […], London: Burns & Lambert, […], →OCLC, part VI...
  8. (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: of a thing: to lie or be physically positioned on something, especially horizontally; to rest on or be supported by something.
    • a trap reposing on sand
    • On the table reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning . . . a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts.1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 22
  9. (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: of light, a look, etc.: to fall or rest (and often remain for a while) on something; to alight, to dwell.
    • [T]he grate did then unclose, / And on that reverend form the moonlight did repose.1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Third”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or...
    • For on such things the memory reposes / With tenderness,— […]1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza LVIII, page 148
  10. (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: to be based on; to depend or rely on.
    • The ſoul repoſing on aſſur'd relief, / Feels herſelf happy amidſt all her grief, / Forgets her labour as ſhe toils along, / VVeeps tears of joy, and burſts into a ſong.1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Truth”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 96
    • Lord Bolingbroke [Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke] may have publiſhed in French a ſketch of his Reflections on Exile: but his reputation novv repoſes on the addreſs of Voltaire, "Docte ſermones utriuſque linguæ;" and by his Engliſh dedication to Queen Caroline, and his Eſſay on Epic Poetry...a. 1795 (date written), Edward Gibbon, “Memoirs of My Life and Writings”, in John Lord Sheffield [i.e., John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield], editor, Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon...
  11. (also, archaic, figuratively, intransitive) To cease activity to rest or recover; also, to have a period free from activity or disturbance.
    • From the Leila and Majnun of Nizami. […] Thou wert agitated like the sand of the desert; but now thou reposest as the water of the lake.1817 September 30, Vans Kennedy, “III. An Essay on Persian Literature.”, in Transactions of The Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, London: […] [Richard and Arthur Taylor] for Longman, Hurst...
    • By the forests, lakes, and fountains / Thro' the many-folded mountains; / To the rents, and gulphs, and chasms, / Where the Earth reposed from spasms, […]1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, pages 71–72
  12. (intransitive, obsolete) To have faith in; to confide, to trust.
    • I do deſire thy vvorthy company, / Vpon vvhoſe faith and honor, I repoſe.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • In queſtions difficult or dangerous, it is indeed natural to repoſe upon authority, and, vvhen fear happens to predominate, upon the authority of thoſe vvhom vve do not generally think vviſer than ourſelves.1751 July 12 (Gregorian calendar), Samuel Johnson, “No. 135. Monday, July 2. 1751.”, in The Rambler, volume VI, Edinburgh: […] Sands, Murray, and Cochran; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, […]...
  13. (intransitive, literary, obsolete, poetic) To lie still and unmoving.
    • [T]he Pebles, Pyritæ, Amber, or other like Nodules, vvhich happened to be repoſed in thoſe Cliffs, amongſt the Earth ſo beaten dovvn, being hard, and not ſo diſſoluble, and likevviſe more bulky and ponderous, are left behind upon the Shores, being impeded, and ſecured, by that their bulk and...1695, John Woodward, “Part IV. Of the Origin and Formation of Metalls and Minerals.”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […]...
    • [H]er dark and deepening eyes, / Which, as twin phantoms of one star that lies / O'er a dim well, move, though the star reposes, / Swam in our mute and liquid ecstasies, […]1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Sixth”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or...

Noun

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

  1. (uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.
    • So forth ſhe rode vvithout repoſe or reſt, / Searching all lands and each remoteſt part, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 445
    • Content thee Cytherea [i.e., Aphrodite] in thy care, / Since thy Æneas vvandring fate is firme, / VVhoſe vvearie lims ſhall ſhortly make repoſe, / In thoſe faire vvalles I promiſt him of yore: […]1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act I, signature A3, recto
    1. (broadly, uncountable) Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.
    2. (broadly, countable, Eastern Orthodoxy) The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being peacefully inactive or relaxed, or being free from disturbances or worries; calmness, ease, peace, quietness.
    • [T]he Felicity of this life, conſiſteth not in the repoſe of a mind ſatisfied.1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Difference of Manners”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […]...
    • […] I am diverted from that subject by letters which I have received from several ladies, complaining of a certain sect of professed enemies to the repose of the fair sex, called Oglers.1710 March 24 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Monday, March 14, 1709–10”, in The Tatler, number 145; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The...
  3. (uncountable) Calmness of the mind or temperament; composure.
    • But lord! she goes with so blithe a repose, / And comes so shapely about you, / That ere you're aware, with a glance and an air, / She whisks your heart from out you.1815, Leigh Hunt, “[Translations, &c.] Song. (To the Air of ‘The De’il Came Fiddling through the Town.’).”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Gale and Fenner, […], →OCLC, page...
    • She had the passions of her kind, / She spake some certain truths of you. / Indeed I heard one bitter word / That scarce is fit for you to hear. / Her manners had not that repose / Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 157
  4. (uncountable) Of the face, a muscle, etc.: the state of being relaxed and not in tension.
    • In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 126
    • He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 33
  5. (uncountable) The state of lying still and unmoving; calmness, tranquillity; (countable) an instance of this.
    • But o'er the tvvilight groves, and dusky caves, / Long-ſounding iſles, and intermingled graves, / Black Melancholy ſits, and round her throvvs / A death-like ſilence, and a dread repose: […]1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 425
    • [H]e arose, / Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star / Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose; […]1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXXVI, page...
  6. (archaic, uncountable) Relief or respite from something exhausting or unpleasant; (countable) an instance of this.
    • O Sole in whom my thoughts find all repoſe, / My Glorie, my Perfection, glad I ſee / Thy face, […]1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • I vvho lately ſang / Truth, Hope and Charity, and touch'd vvith avve / The ſolemn chords, and vvith a trembling hand, / Eſcap'd vvith pain from that advent'rous flight, / Novv ſeek repoſe upon an humbler theme; […]1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 1
  7. (archaic, uncountable) Confidence, faith, or trust in something.
  8. (uncountable) The arrangement of elements of an artwork, a building, etc., that is restful and soothing to a viewer; harmony.
    • VVe are to take occaſion as much as poſſibly vve can, […] to find the repoſe of vvhich vve ſpeak, by the Light and by the Shadovv, vvhich naturally accompany ſolid Bodies.1695, [Roger de Piles], “Observations on the Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting...
  9. (uncountable) The state of leaving something alone or untouched; (countable) an instance of this.
  10. (uncountable) Chiefly in the form point of repose, position of repose, etc.: absence of motion; equilibrium; (countable) a position where an object is not moving and at rest.
  11. (uncountable) Of a natural phenomenon, especially the eruption of a volcano: the state of temporary cessation of activity; dormancy, quiescence.
    • VVhile proudly riding o'er the azure realm / In gallant trim the gilded Veſſel goes; / Youth on the provv, and Pleaſure at the helm; / Regardleſs of the ſvveeping VVhirlvvind's ſvvay, / That, huſh'd in grim repoſe, expects his evening-prey.1755–1757 (date written), [Thomas] Gray, “Ode VI. The Bard. Pindaric.”, in The Poems of Mr. Gray. […], York, Yorkshire: […] A[nn] Ward; and sold by J[ames] Dodsley, […]; and J[ohn] Todd, […]...
    • […] Vesuvius was virtually in repose, and the slow changes in the heaped white cloud above the crater were only like those of a thunder cloud.1887, John Ruskin, “Cumæ”, in Præterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life, volume II, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 87
  12. (countable, obsolete) A piece of furniture on which one can rest, especially a couch or sofa.
    • [S]he lay expecting her coming Lover, on a repoſe of rich Embroidery of Gold on blevv Sattin, […]1685, A[phra] B[ehn], “Silvia to Octavio”, in Love Letters from a Noble Man to His Sister: Mixt with the History of Their Adventures. The Second Part […], volume II, London: […] Randal Taylor, […]...
  13. (countable, obsolete) A place of rest.
    • [W]orſt is my Port, / My harbour and my ultimate repoſe, / The end I vvould attain, my final good.1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65, lines 209–210
  14. (obsolete, uncountable, painting) The technique of including in a painting an area or areas which are dark, indistinct, or soft in tone so that other areas are more prominent, or so that a viewer can rest they eyes when looking at them; (countable) such an area of a painting.
    • [A]fter the great Lights, there muſt be great Shadovvs, vvhich vve call repoſes: becauſe in reality the Sight vvould be tired, if it vvere attracted by a Continuity of glittering objects. […] Theſe repoſes are made tvvo ſeveral vvays, one of vvhich is Natural, the other Artificial. The Natural is...1695, [Roger de Piles], “Observations on the Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting...

Verb (2)

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

  1. (transitive) To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
    • Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ'd, / In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope, / VVhat thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • Long thus I ioyed in my happineſſe, / And vvell did hope my ioy vvoud haue no end: / But oh fond man, that in vvorlds fickleneſſe / Repoſeſt hope, or vveenedſt her thy frend, / That glories moſt in mortall miſeries, / And daylie doth her changefull counſels bend: / To make nevv matter fit for...1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier....
  2. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
    • His greatest defect was the facility with which he reposed the cares of state on favorites, not always the most deserving.1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, “Conquest of Navarre. 1512–1513.”, in History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company...
  3. (archaic, transitive) To place (something), especially for safekeeping or storage; to deposit, to keep safe, to store.
    • When Christ affirmeth, that "where a mans treasure is, there is his heart:" by treasure, he meaneth not the possession of riches simply, but hee meaneth that, wherein a man reposeth his chiefe treasure and felicitie to consist. […] He that reposeth his felicitie in building, giueth ouer his...1589, Thomas Cooper, “Proofes out of the Newe Testament against the Rich Liuings of Bishops”, in An Admonition to the People of England: Against Martin Mar-Prelate, London: John Petheram, […]...
    • […] Libraries, […] are as the Shrynes, vvhere all the Reliques of the ancient Saints, full of true vertue, and that vvithout deluſion or impoſture, are preſerued, and repoſed; […]1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To regard (something) as being embodied in another thing; to ascribe, to attribute.
    • […] Paule ſayth that the widowes which hauing ben ones receiued into the Publike miniſterie did marrye, denyed their firſt fayth. But I doe not denie to them, that the widowes, whiche bounde themſelues and their ſeruices to the Chirch, did therewithall take vpon them the bonde of cõtinuall vnmaried...1561 May 16 (Gregorian calendar), Ihon Caluin [i.e., John Calvin], “Of Vowes, by Rash Promising wherof Eche Man hath Miserably Entangled Himselfe”, in [Thomas Norton], transl., The Institution of...
    • [A] certaine Bonzi, […] did giue them a certaine booke to kiſſe, and laid it on their heads, vvherein they repoſed much holiness, and vvorſhipped it as a god: […]1614, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] A Continuation of the Former Discourse Touching the Religions of Iapon.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages...
  5. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To establish or institute (something); to found.
    • A long buylt citty there ſtood, Carthago ſo named, / From the mouth of Tybris, from land eke of Italie ſeauer'd, / Poſſeſt wyth Tyrians, in ſtrength and riches abounding, / There Iuno the princes her empyre wholye repoſed, […]1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC...
  6. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To throw (something); to cast.
    • [T]hee ſouthwynd merciles eager / Three gallant veſſels on rocks gnawne craggye repoſed.1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC...
  7. (transitive) To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
  8. (obsolete, transitive) To forcefully restrain (something); to repress, to suppress.
    • [A] multitude of common People gather'd together in Bands that very Sunday-morning, all armed vvith a full and furious purpoſe to repoſe the Inſolence and Pride of the Nobility, vvho had reduced the common people to ſuch a paſs that they could hardly live by them.1652, Alexander Giraffi [i.e., Alessandro Giraffi], “A Compendium of the Sublevations and Turmoils which Happen’d in the City, and among the People of Cosenza”, in James Howell, transl., An Exact...
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To return (something) to a particular place; to put back, to replace.
  10. (Scotland, obsolete, rare, transitive) To restore (someone) to a position or rank formerly held; to reinstate.
  11. (intransitive) Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.

Verb (3)

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

  1. (reflexive, transitive) To pose (oneself or someone, or something) again.

repose meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

repose in Hindi

to repose
सोना sonā

repose in Tamil

இளைப்பாறு, நம்பிக்கை கொள், நம்பிக்கை வை

repose in Urdu

to repose
سونا sonā

repose in Bengali

বিশ্রাম করা, শুয়ে থাকা
More languagesFewer languages
repose in Malayalam
സ്വസ്ഥത, ശാന്തമാക്കുക, വിശ്വസിക്കുക, ആശ്രയിക്കുക
repose in Kannada
ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ, ವಿರಾಮ, ಆರಾಮ, ನಿದ್ರೆ

Examples of repose in a sentence

  • A hundred times hast thou said, when, wearied with thy labours and oppressed by thy troubles, thou reposedst thy head familiarly on my breast, 'Would that I could die in this bosom!'1850, Thomas H[enry] Dyer, chapter XV, in The Life of John Calvin. […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 516:
  • Peters reposed her 200 pounds on the safer of the two chairs and gazed stolidly out the one window at the brick wall opposite.1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Harbinger”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City, N.Y....
  • On the twentieth of June he [Johann de Kalb] entered North Carolina, and halted at Hillsborough to repose his wayworn soldiers.1874, George Bancroft, “War in the South: Cornwallis and Gates. 1780.”, in History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American...
  • [D]istant banks of purple mist coloured the liquid plain with a cool green-blue, a celadon tint that reposed the eye and the brain.1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “To Sánga-Tánga and Back”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The...

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Forms of repose

third-person singular presentreposes
present participlereposing
past participlereposed
pastreposed
second-person singular present (archaic)reposest
second-person singular past (archaic)reposedst

Past tense of repose: reposed

Origin of repose

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end”), from Ancient Greek παῦσῐς (paûsĭs, “ceasing, stopping”), from παύω (paúō, “to cease; to make to cease, stop; to bring to an end; to hinder”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result)). The noun is derived from Late Middle English repose, from Anglo-Norman repous, repos, and Middle French repos, repose, from Old French repos (“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”) (modern French repos), from reposer, repauser...

From Middle English reposen (“to put (something) back, replace”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + posen (“to place (something)”), modelled after Latin repōnō (“to put back; to restore; to store”). Posen is derived from Old French poser (“to place, put”) (modern French poser), from Vulgar Latin pausāre, from Latin pausāre, the present active infinitive of pausō (see further at etymology 1), influenced by pōnere, the present active infinitive of pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

From re- + pose.

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Questions about repose

What does repose mean?
Repose means to lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.
What is repose in Hindi?
Repose in Hindi is सोना (sonā). See Repose meaning in Hindi.
How do you use repose in a sentence?
A hundred times hast thou said, when, wearied with thy labours and oppressed by thy troubles, thou reposedst thy head familiarly on my breast, 'Would that I could die in this bosom!'
What part of speech is repose?
Repose can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce repose?
Repose is pronounced /ɹɪˈpəʊz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of repose?
The past tense of repose is reposed.

Words near repose in the dictionary

  1. reposados
  2. reposal
  3. reposall
  4. reposals
  5. reposance
  6. repose
  7. repose in action
  8. reposed
  9. reposedly
  10. reposedness
  11. reposedst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repose (page history and authors); सोना (Hindi) (page history and authors); repose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سونا (Urdu) (page history and authors); repose (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repose (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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