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rester

rester noun: one who rests.

Noun

rester (plural resters)

  1. One who rests.
    • Their ideal vacation experience made the rester the focus of care, the object of medical, cultural, and culinary attention.2013, Diane P. Koenker, Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, page 136

Proper noun capitalized: Rester

Rester (plural Resters)

  1. A surname.

Forms of rester

Noun
pluralresters
Proper noun
pluralResters

Origin of rester

From Middle English restar, restere, equivalent to rest + -er.

Questions about rester

What does rester mean?
Rester means one who rests.
What part of speech is rester?
Rester can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rester?
The plural of rester is resters.

Words near rester in the dictionary

  1. restenotic
  2. restep
  3. restepped
  4. restepping
  5. resteps
  6. rester
  7. resterilise
  8. resterilised
  9. resterilises
  10. resterilising
  11. resterilization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rester (page history and authors); Rester (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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