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sleepover

sleepover noun: the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.

Noun

sleepover (plural sleepovers)

  1. The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
    • Since it would be too late to notify the many people whom we hope are coming, we are really working hard to find other facilities — probably to rent a hall for the meetings; perhaps arrange sleep-overs at Israeli members' homes.1979 August 18, Ilana Weinstock, “Holy Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 10
  2. An overnight guest.

sleepover meaning in Bengali and Kannada

sleepover in Bengali

এক রাত থাকার অতিথি

sleepover in Kannada

ತಾತ್ಸಾರ ಮಾಡು, ಲೆಕ್ಕಿಸದಿರು, ನಿರ್ಲಕ್ಷ್ಯದಿಂದಿರು, ಮಾಡದಿರು

Forms of sleepover

pluralsleepovers

Plural of sleepover: sleepovers

Origin of sleepover

From sleep + over.

Words formed from sleepover

Questions about sleepover

What does sleepover mean?
Sleepover means the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
What is sleepover in Bengali?
Sleepover in Bengali is এক রাত থাকার অতিথি. See Sleepover meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sleepover?
Sleepover is a noun.
What is the plural of sleepover?
The plural of sleepover is sleepovers.

Words near sleepover in the dictionary

  1. sleepmaxxing
  2. sleepness
  3. sleepnesses
  4. sleepout
  5. sleepouts
  6. sleepover
  7. sleepovers
  8. sleeps
  9. sleeps a wink
  10. sleeps around
  11. sleeps black

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepover (page history and authors); sleepover (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepover (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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