winterover
winterover noun: one who remains at an Antarctic base during the quiet winter season.
Noun
winterover (plural winterovers)
- One who remains at an Antarctic base during the quiet winter season.
- The people who spend the winter at the Pole are known as winterovers. And here’s the kicker. South Pole winterovers are essentially stranded at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from the time the last plane flies out in mid-February until the next plane lands in early November.2012 September 14, Laurel Norris, “What’s a winterover?”, in IceCube
- Even the chance of seeing the sun was enough to draw a crowd from the ten winterover Kiwis and two hundred and fifty McMurdoans to the peak.2021 March 12, M. L. Buchman, Sunrise on ‘The Ice’
Forms of winterover
| plural | winterovers |
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Origin of winterover
From winter + over.
Questions about winterover
- What does winterover mean?
- Winterover means one who remains at an Antarctic base during the quiet winter season.
- What part of speech is winterover?
- Winterover is a noun.
- What is the plural of winterover?
- The plural of winterover is winterovers.
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