Meaning

5 senses

  1. A set of six legal balls bowled.

    Jones hit four boundaries in the first over.

    (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch

  2. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.

  3. (informal)Something having an excess of a particular property.

    I went fishing but caught mostly overs.

    In today's golf tournament we recorded three unders and twenty overs.

  4. A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such as points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.

  5. (dialectal, obsolete, rare)A shore, riverbank.

    The sea's over.

Examples

12258 sentences

  1. A strange feeling came over me.

    Мною опанувало дивне відчуття. — aandrusiak

    ruМеня охватило странное чувство. — bijin

    deEin eigenartiges Gefühl übermannte mich. — kroko

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  2. Could you move over a little?

    Чи не могли би ви трохи посунутися? — deniko

    ruВы бы не могли немного подвинуться? — Hellerick

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  3. The news spread all over Japan.

    Новина поширилася на всю Японію. — deniko

    ruНовость распространилась по всей Японии. — odexed

    deDie Nachricht verbreitete sich über ganz Japan. — Yorwba

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  4. The dog jumped over a chair.

    Собака перестрибнув через стілець. — deniko

    deDer Hund sprang über einen Stuhl. — bonny37

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  5. Could you come over right now?

    Ти не міг би прийти просто зараз? — deniko

    ruТы не мог бы зайти прямо сейчас? — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, ofor, ouer, from Proto-West Germanic *oba

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, ofor, ouer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”).

From Middle English over (“riverbank, seashore, brink”), from Old English ōfer (“riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border”), from Proto-Germanic *ōferaz. Cognate with Dutch oever (“riverbank, shore”), German Ufer (“shore, shoreline, riverbank”), Low German Över (“shore, riverbank”).

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Forms

plural: overs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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