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Definition of "rest area" []

  • A designated area, usually along a major highway, where motorists can pause to relax. Also called rest stop. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rest area" in a sentence
  • "Lady and Queenie had visited every rest area between the Twin Cities and Gunhammer Lake."
  • "With its portable toilets and big rigs in the lot, the rest area had a rough two-day-growth-of-beard-and-spit ambience, a kind of Wild West of the Italian road peopled by characters who looked unhappy and rootless."
  • "Five miles along I-70 past Thompson Springs, Utah, I pulled off the interstate at a large rest area and backed my truck up into the darkest parking spot between two sixty-foot-high light poles illuminating the half-dozen landscaped mesquite trees near the picnic shelters."
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