overnight
An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facilityAn overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
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Translations
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Meaning
4 sensesAn overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
Logiernacht
ночёвкаnočóvka
An item delivered or completed overnight.
Have you looked at the overnights yet?
(in the plural)Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
(obsolete)The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, oInherited 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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Forms
plural: overnights| Singular | overnight |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.