whole rest

noun

Music.

1. a rest equivalent in duration to a whole note.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whole rest¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

She volunteered to stay open late and beckon the crowd for a late-night snack, bringing in more revenue in a few hours than they had earned the whole rest of the day.

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"When the clips go out, it's weird because you’re cutting a lot of the context of the whole rest of the show out, and what's been established before and after."

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While making lunch for her child, she relates: “The problem wasn’t the lunch, it was what came after, the whole rest of my life.”

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Chet made her promise to be good for the whole rest of the day.

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Believe it or not, I believe in the whole rest of her life she has coming outside of these two dudes.

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