Sekirov Dictionary

overnight

/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

adverb 2
noun 4
adjective 3
verb 2
forms 3

adverb2

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during the night, until the next morning
- Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
- They delivered the package overnight.
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(figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- The change seemed to happen overnight.

noun4

An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
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[in the plural] Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- 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. — 2000
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An item delivered or completed overnight.
- Have you looked at the overnights yet?
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(no longer used) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
- Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at overnight, She might have been o'erta'en — 1604

adjective3

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Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.
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For which participants stay overnight.
- They sent their kids to overnight camp.
- We went on an overnight ski trip.
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Complete before the next morning.
- Don't expect overnight delivery.

verb2

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To stay overnight; to spend the night.
- 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. — 2002
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(US) To send something for delivery the next day.
- We can overnight you the documents for signature.

forms

overnighted · overnighting · overnights

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