overnighter

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noun

A person who overnights, or stays overnight.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

nounovernighter (plural overnighters)

plural overnighters

  1. 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.

    1 more example

    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
  2. Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
  3. informalA stay or event that takes place overnight.
    1 more example

    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

Broader
bagtraveling bagtravelling bag

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
APA

overnighter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter

MLA

“overnighter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overnighter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overnighter.

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