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Overnight
Definitions
- 1 Occurring between dusk and dawn. not-comparable
"The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m."
- 2 Complete before the next morning. not-comparable
"Don't expect overnight delivery."
- 3 For which participants stay overnight. not-comparable
"They sent their kids to overnight camp."
- 1 lasting, open, or operating through the whole night wordnet
- 1 During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past. not-comparable
"Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning."
- 2 In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time. figuratively, not-comparable
"The change seemed to happen overnight."
- 1 during or for the length of one night wordnet
- 2 happening in a short time or with great speed wordnet
- 1 An item delivered or completed overnight.
"Have you looked at the overnights yet?"
- 2 An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
"Some will also have to work less coveted schedules like overnights and weekends just to start building their career and demo tape."
- 3 Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on. in-plural
"Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come."
- 4 The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening. obsolete
"Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at overnight, She might have been o'erta'en"
- 1 To stay overnight; to spend the night. intransitive
"His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744."
- 2 To send something for delivery the next day. US, transitive
"We can overnight you the documents for signature."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently. Compare also Dutch overnachten (“to overnight”), Middle Low German ȫvernachten (“to overnight”), West Frisian oernachtsje (“to overnight”), Saterland Frisian uurnoachtje (“to overnight”).
Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently. Compare also Dutch overnachten (“to overnight”), Middle Low German ȫvernachten (“to overnight”), West Frisian oernachtsje (“to overnight”), Saterland Frisian uurnoachtje (“to overnight”).
Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently. Compare also Dutch overnachten (“to overnight”), Middle Low German ȫvernachten (“to overnight”), West Frisian oernachtsje (“to overnight”), Saterland Frisian uurnoachtje (“to overnight”).
Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently. Compare also Dutch overnachten (“to overnight”), Middle Low German ȫvernachten (“to overnight”), West Frisian oernachtsje (“to overnight”), Saterland Frisian uurnoachtje (“to overnight”).
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