rest stop

Noun

Meaning

designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

rest area pull-off lay-by layby branch service station parking space pit stop service area bus stop parking meter break room picnic area parking spot brief stop

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Antonyms

work service beginning business continue fight

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Hypernyms

area

Examples

A group of girls handed out thank you bags full of food to truck drivers at an I-80 rest stop on Saturday. Source: Internet

Amboy, California (population 700) had grown as a Route 66 rest stop and would decline with the highway as the opening of Interstate 40 in 1973 bypassed the village entirely. Source: Internet

About two weeks after he arrived there, a friend caught him on a hookup app, I checked his location, and he was sitting at a rest stop, this was at 2AM. Source: Internet

BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) - An Ohio man who police say stole $800 cash from a traveler at the I-80 rest stop in Bettendorf in July has been arrested. Source: Internet

Owen's Ordinary was a small rest stop on Rock Creek Main Road (later the Rockville Pike), which stretched from George Town to Frederick Town, and was then one of the largest thoroughfares in the colony of Maryland. Source: Internet

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop, a place where place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

rest position rest potential rest room rest time rest up rest zone