overnighter

Noun

overnighter (plural overnighters)

1. A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
   • I was totally unprepared (my "padding," my apartment) for an overnighter, but I invited him.1981, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
   • Meanwhile, wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian
2. Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
3. (informal) A stay or event that takes place overnight.
   • To tackle the narrative challenge of Cave’s extreme isolation (for most of the winter he’s confined to a tiny hut, lacking even the sun for solace), Harding populates his solitude through reveries of his marriage to a Danish woman, whose pregnancy and calamitous labor make his own ordeal look, at...2007 March 11, Steven Heighton, “Survivor”, in New York Times