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overnite

overnite is the informal spelling of overnight.

Meaning of overnight

Adverb

overnight (not comparable)

  1. During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
    • Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
  2. (figuratively) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
    • The change seemed to happen overnight.

See all 11 meanings of overnight

Origin of overnite

From over- + nite.

Questions about overnite

What is overnite the informal spelling of?
Overnite is the informal spelling of overnight.

Words near overnite in the dictionary

  1. overnighters
  2. overnighting
  3. overnights
  4. overnim
  5. overnimble
  6. overnite
  7. overnitrated
  8. overnoise
  9. overnoised
  10. overnoises
  11. overnoising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overnite (page history and authors); overnight (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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