nonstop
/ˌnɒnˈstɒp/US/ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
nonstop adjective: without stopping; without interruption or break.
Adjective
nonstop (not comparable)
- Without stopping; without interruption or break.
- There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.
- Christmas in Strasbourg and the rest of Alsace is officially feted from the last Saturday in November through Dec. 31 in a month full of nonstop markets, concerts, torch-lighted forest walks, parades, live Nativity scenes, storytelling, theater and public aperitifs.2004 November 27, Robert V. Camuto, “Old World Holiday: It’s All Marketing”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
- Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
Adverb
nonstop (not comparable)
- Without stopping; without interruption or break
- He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.
- Synonyms:
- ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, continuously, eternally, ever
Noun
nonstop (plural nonstops)
- A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
- With business-class seats on nonstops from British Airways and Cathay Pacific often priced up to $8,000 round trip, Mr. Exton typically flew cheaper alternatives that saved money but required layovers and plane switches.2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in The New York Times
- A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
- [In Hungary:] Most department stores and gift shops are open weekdays 10–5 or 6, Saturday until 1. Grocery stores are generally open weekdays from 7 or 8 am to 7 pm; “nonstops,” or éjjeli-nappali,^([sic]) are open 24 hours.1994, Christopher Billy, editor, Eastern Europe: Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria (Fodor's Travel Guides), New York, NY: Fodor's Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 203
- There's usually something open on most holidays apart from the evening of 24 December when even the nonstops stop.2003, Time Out Budapest, page 233
- A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
- Some of these consonants are stops, some are non-stops (continuants, see 11.2); some are voiced, others voiceless. It doesn't therefore look as if these consonants can have anything in common.2009, Christopher McCully, The Sound Structure of English: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 182
nonstop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Gujarati
nonstop in Hindi
- nonstop, incessantly
- ताबड़तोड़ tābaṛtoṛ
nonstop in Tamil
- without stopping
- நிற்காமல் niṟkāmal, தொடர்ந்து toṭarntu
nonstop in Bengali
- অবিরাম, বিরতিহীন
nonstop in Gujarati
- nonstop, endlessly
- ઉપરાઉપરી uparāuparī
More languagesFewer languages
- nonstop in Persian
- یکسره yeksare, بدون توقف bedune tavaqqof
- nonstop in Thai
- อย่างไม่หยุดไม่หย่อน
- nonstop in Vietnamese
- thẳng
Examples of nonstop in a sentence
- Inside my head, a voice chatters nonstop like a machine gun: Hummina hummina hummina.
- They knew his keglike build and nonstop enthusiasms, the greeting of "Who loves you, baby?"
- He called me shortly after the story crossed the wires and cursed at me nonstop for minutes.
Synonyms of nonstop
- ceaselessly
- endlessly
- incessantly
- consecutively
- constantly
- continently
- continually
- continuously
- eternally
- ever
19 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of nonstop
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | non-stop |
| Noun | |
| plural | nonstops |
Origin of nonstop
From non- + stop.
Words formed from nonstop
Words that rhyme with nonstop
44 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about nonstop
- What does nonstop mean?
- Nonstop means without stopping; without interruption or break.
- What is nonstop in Hindi?
- Nonstop in Hindi is ताबड़तोड़ (tābaṛtoṛ). See Nonstop meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nonstop?
- Nonstop can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce nonstop?
- Nonstop is pronounced /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/ (UK).
Words near nonstop in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonstop (page history and authors); ताबड़तोड़ (Hindi) (page history and authors); Nonstop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉપરાઉપરી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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