Meanings
plural overnighters
- A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
1981, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I was totally unprepared (my "padding," my apartment) for an overnighter, but I invited him.
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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 consorts
2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian - Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- informalA stay or event that takes place overnight.
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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 least for a while, like an overnighter in the Adirondacks.
2007 March 11, Steven Heighton, “Survivor”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish yöpyjä, yö-
- yöpyjäone who overnights
- yö-something that serves overnight travel
- yölentosomething that serves overnight travel
- yöjunasomething that serves overnight travel
- yö-stay or event
- yökylästay or event
- yöretkistay or event
Cite this entry
overnighter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter
“overnighter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overnighter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter.
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