overnight

Meanings

Adverb

  • During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
  • In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

Adjective

  • Occurring between dusk and dawn.
  • Complete before the next morning.
  • Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.

Verb

  • To stay overnight; to spend the night.
  • To send something for delivery the next day.

Noun

  • Items delivered or completed overnight.
  • An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
  • Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
  • The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

Origin

  • Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht, equivalent to over + night.

Modern English dictionary

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