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rest.

rest. is the abbreviation of restitution.

rest. is the abbreviation of restaurant.

Meaning of restitution

Noun

restitution (countable and uncountable, plural restitutions)

  1. A process of compensation for losses.
  2. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
    • A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  3. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
    • the restitution of an elastic body
  4. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
    • Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks.1998 December 19, “Restitution and the Problem of Stolen Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2021
  5. The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.

Meaning of restaurant

Noun

restaurant (plural restaurants)

  1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
    • That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.

Noun capitalized: Rest.

Rest.

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of restaurant.

Forms of rest.

pluralrests.

Words that rhyme with rest.

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about rest.

What is rest. the abbreviation of?
Rest. is the abbreviation of restitution.
What part of speech is rest.?
Rest. is a noun.
What is the plural of rest.?
The plural of rest. is rests..

Words near rest. in the dictionary

  1. rest upon
  2. rest't
  3. rest, residue and remainder
  4. rest-and-digest
  5. rest-harrow
  6. rest.
  7. restabilisation
  8. restabilisations
  9. restabilise
  10. restabilised
  11. restabilises

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rest. (page history and authors); Rest. (page history and authors); restitution (page history and authors); restaurant (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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