repos
French, noun/ʁə.po/
repos is a French masculine noun meaning “rest, ease, repose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort”.
What does repos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerest, ease, repose
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Privation, cessation de mouvement, d’activité ou d’effort. 2. Cessation de travail, d’exercice, pour faire disparaître la fatigue. 3. Ordre donné pour suspendre l’exercice et permettre aux soldats de se délasser. 4. Quiétude, tranquillité, exemption de toute peine d’esprit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce repos?
- /ʁə.po/
- \ʁə.po\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to repos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is repos in French?
repos appears 28 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).