overnight
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Adverb[edit]
overnight (not comparable)
- Throughout the night
- Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
- 2012 November 20, Nina Bernstein, “Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York”, New York Times:
- Overnight, as the storm bore down on urban flood zones, city officials ramped up emergency spaces to shelter thousands more people, mostly in public schools and colleges.
- During a single night
- They delivered the package overnight.
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time
- The change seemed to happen overnight.
Translations[edit]
throughout the night
during a single night
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in a very short amount of time
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Adjective[edit]
overnight (not comparable)
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- The overnight ferry docked at 10AM.
- Complete before the next morning.
- Don't expect results overnight.
Verb[edit]
overnight (third-person singular simple present overnights, present participle overnighting, simple past and past participle overnighted)
- (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night. [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 128:
- 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, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 128:
- (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day. [from 20th c.]
- We can overnight you the documents for signature.
Translations[edit]
stay overnight
Noun[edit]
overnight (plural overnights)
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
- Have you looked at the overnights yet?
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
overnight stay
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