Dictionary

overnighter en · NOUN

Etymology

From overnight + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
   • 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:
   • 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.
2. Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
3. (informal) A stay or event that takes place overnight.
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (7)

fi yö- (stay or event) · fi yöjuna (something that serves overnight travel) · fi yölento (something that serves overnight travel) · fi yöretki (stay or event) · fi yöpyjä (one who overnights) · fi yökylä (stay or event) · fi yö- (something that serves overnight travel)