REPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repose mean? 

• REPOSE (noun)
  The noun REPOSE has 3 senses:

1. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

2. the absence of mental stress or anxiety

3. a disposition free from stress or emotion

  Familiarity information: REPOSE used as a noun is uncommon.

• REPOSE (verb)
  The verb REPOSE has 6 senses:

1. put or confide something in a person or thing

2. be inherent or innate in

3. lie when dead

4. lean in a comfortable resting position

5. put in a horizontal position

6. to put something (eg trust) in something

  Familiarity information: REPOSE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ease; relaxation; repose; rest

Context example:

took his repose by the swimming pool

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

inactivity (being inactive; being less active)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repose"):

bed rest; bedrest (confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons))

laziness (relaxed and easy activity)

lie-in (a long stay in bed in the morning)

dormancy; quiescence; quiescency; sleeping (quiet and inactive restfulness)

leisure (freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity)

Derivation:

repose (lean in a comfortable resting position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The absence of mental stress or anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose; serenity

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity (a state of peace and quiet)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A disposition free from stress or emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

placidity; quiet; repose; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

calm; calmness; composure; equanimity (steadiness of mind under stress)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repose"):

ataraxia (peace of mind)

• REPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they repose    ... he / she / it reposes   
Past simple: reposed   
Past participle: reposed   
-ing form: reposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put or confide something in a person or thing

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

These philosophers reposed the law in the people

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

assign; put (attribute or give)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be inherent or innate in

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

repose; reside; rest

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

attach to; inhere in (be part of)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lie when dead

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Mao reposes in his mausoleum

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lean in a comfortable resting position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

recline; recumb; repose

Context example:

He was reposing on the couch

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Verb group:

recline (cause to recline)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repose"):

rest (be at rest)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The children repose in the rocking chair
There repose some children in the rocking chair

Derivation:

repose (freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Put in a horizontal position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lay; put down; repose

Context example:

lay the patient carefully onto the bed

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Cause:

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repose"):

rail (lay with rails)

lay; blow (lay eggs)

bury; entomb; inhume; inter; lay to rest (place in a grave or tomb)

rebury (bury again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Also:

repose on (be based on; of theories and claims, for example)

Sense 6

Meaning:

To put something (eg trust) in something

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The nation reposed its confidence in the King

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

He ceased to speak, and his hand upon the table rested there in perfect repose, with a resolution in it that might have conquered lions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He contented himself with the knowledge that even then the original type-written manuscript was reposing in the office of a New York magazine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"So am I," added Jo, slapping the pocket wherein reposed the long-desired Undine and Sintram.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here's harmony! said she; here's repose!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But no sooner was Mr. Utterson alone that night, than he locked the note into his safe, where it reposed from that time forward.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Stability, equilibrium,” he said, relaxing on the instant and sinking his body back into repose.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, for a while, there came over her face a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)