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overnighters

overnighters is the plural of overnighter.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about overnighters

What is overnighters the plural of?
Overnighters is the plural of overnighter.

Words near overnighters in the dictionary

  1. overnight nappies
  2. overnight nappy
  3. overnight oats
  4. overnighted
  5. overnighter
  6. overnighters
  7. overnighting
  8. overnights
  9. overnim
  10. overnimble
  11. overnite

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