over

Meanings

Adjective

• Discontinued; ended or concluded.

Adverb

• Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
• To an excessive degree; overly.
• From an upright position to a horizontal one.
• Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
• From one side of something to another, passing above it.
• From one position or state to another.
• Overnight .
• Again; another time; once more; over again.

Noun

• A set of six legal balls bowled.
• Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
• A shore, riverbank.

Verb

• To go over, or jump over.
• To run about.

Origin

• From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér, a comparative form of *upo; akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Danish over, Norwegian over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Faroese yvir, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂, Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπέρ, Albanian upri ("group of peasants"), Sanskrit उपरि.
• From Middle English over ("riverbank, seashore, brink"), from Old English ōfer ("riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border"), from Proto-Germanic *ōferaz. Cognate with Dutch oever ("riverbank, shore"), German Ufer ("shore, shoreline, riverbank"), Low German Över ("shore, riverbank").