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.
   • 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.