resting place
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈrɛstɪŋ pleɪs/
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tumba
- The Valley of the Kings has been the final resting place of many ancient Pharaohs.
- final resting place
- last resting place
And I think this was his way of, of giving her the most beautiful resting place.
- And I think this was his way of, of giving her the most beautiful resting place.
- Currently at the pantheon, the resting place where Louis Braille, founding father of Braille, the language for the blind is buried.
- We've come here to dedicate a portion of this field as a final resting place of those who here gave their lives that, you know, we may live blah blah, blah.
Examples
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Only that man comes here whose luck is bad, and who has no resting place either in earth or in heaven.
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For 500 years, the Valley of the Kings has been the final resting place of the Pharaohs.
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And then we'll be back for its final resting place three days later.
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I have yet to go back to see his resting place, but he came here for us to have a better life.
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Return them to their final resting place!
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The resting place of the holy rabbi would be impossible to find without a guide.
Academic text (2008) -
Probably not what your late husband imagined as his eternal resting place.
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The final resting place of Captain Nemo.
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Pilgrims come from far and wide to worship at the resting place of these relics.
Blog text (6) -
But at first I couldn't locate the flat military-service plaque that marked my father's resting place.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
421
2.8
A place where people are buried, often with headstones
414
1.0
A place in the ground where a dead body is buried
122
1.8
A place where people are buried after they die
21
3.9
A place where people are buried, like a cemetery
13
3.8
The place in the ground where someone is buried
11
3.7
A place where people bury their dead
1
6.1
An area of land with graves for dead people, like a cemetery
Antonyms
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
resting + place
The phrase transparently combines 'resting' + 'place' so a learner can infer 'a place where someone rests.' However, the specific conventional euphemistic sense 'grave / burial site' is a cultural/figurative extension and may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without contextual clues or exposure, so partial comprehension is likely.
Etymology
Resting place is a gentle way to talk about a grave. It comes from the image of a final, quiet spot where the dead are laid to 'rest', with resting showing the peaceful idea and place pointing to the spot, so it means 'the place where someone is buried'.