resting place

• resting-place (less common)

From Middle English restyng place, restingplace, rystynge-place, restynge place, equivalent to resting +‎ place.

resting place (plural resting places)

1. (euphemistic) A place where one is buried or laid to rest; a tomb.
   • 1945 April 16, 0:38 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S.‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     From his beloved second home at Warm Springs, Georgia, the body of Franklin Delano Roosevelt moves on the first stages of his journey to his final resting place. Scores of sufferers from infantile paralysis sorrowfully bid farewell to their great friend and benefactor. The President's dog follows his beloved master. Aboard a special train beginning the twenty-four hour trip back to Washington, the thirty-first President of the United States leaves Warm Springs forever.

   • 1949 September and October, “Notes and News: Queen Victoria's Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:

     The Western Region station [at Windsor] has seen many arrivals and departures of monarchs, some returning to their last resting place at Frogmore Mausoleum.

   • 2020 June 17, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Robert Stephenson's steam-age bridges”, in Rail, page 46:

     That [Robert] Stephenson's final resting place is in Westminster Abbey, along civil engineering great Thomas Telford, signifies his importance.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see resting,‎ place. A place where one rests or may rest.

• “resting place”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.