overnighter
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Definition of overnighter
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“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”
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noun
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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.”
“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”
- Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
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(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.”
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Etymology
From overnight + -er.
Words you can make from overnighter
200+ playable · top: OVERNIGHT (16 pts)
Best play overnight 16 points9-letter words
1 word8-letter words
16 words7-letter words
37 words- EIGHTVO 14 pts
- HOVERER 13 pts
- THRIVEN 13 pts
- THRIVER 13 pts
- GREENTH 11 pts
- GRIEVER 11 pts
- GROVIER 11 pts
- HERRING 11 pts
- OVERING 11 pts
- REEVING 11 pts
- REGIVEN 11 pts
- REHINGE 11 pts
- RIGHTER 11 pts
- VEERING 11 pts
- VERTIGO 11 pts
- VETOING 11 pts
- ERRHINE 10 pts
- EVERTOR 10 pts
- HERITOR 10 pts
- HEROINE 10 pts
- HORNIER 10 pts
- HORRENT 10 pts
- NEITHER 10 pts
- NERVIER 10 pts
- NORTHER 10 pts
- RIVETER 10 pts
- THEREIN 10 pts
- THEREON 10 pts
- VERNIER 10 pts
- GENITOR 8 pts
- IGNORER 8 pts
- INTEGER 8 pts
- TREEING 8 pts
- ONERIER 7 pts
- REINTER 7 pts
- RENTIER 7 pts
- TERRINE 7 pts
6-letter words
80 words- THIEVE 12 pts
- THRIVE 12 pts
- THROVE 12 pts
- GORHEN 10 pts
- GOVERN 10 pts
- GRIEVE 10 pts
- GRIVET 10 pts
- HINGER 10 pts
- HOEING 10 pts
- HOGTIE 10 pts
- NIGHER 10 pts
- REGIVE 10 pts
- RIGHTO 10 pts
- ROVING 10 pts
- THRONG 10 pts
- VERGER 10 pts
- VIRGER 10 pts
- VOTING 10 pts
- EITHER 9 pts
- ENVIER 9 pts
- ENVIRO 9 pts
- ETHION 9 pts
- HEREIN 9 pts
- HEREON 9 pts
- HERETO 9 pts
- HERIOT 9 pts
- HEROIN 9 pts
- HETERO 9 pts
- HINTER 9 pts
- HORNET 9 pts
- INHERE 9 pts
- INVERT 9 pts
- NETHER 9 pts
- NOTHER 9 pts
- REHIRE 9 pts
- REIVER 9 pts
- RENVOI 9 pts
- REVERT 9 pts
- REVOTE 9 pts
- RHETOR 9 pts
- RIEVER 9 pts
- THEINE 9 pts
- THRONE 9 pts
- TROVER 9 pts
- VEINER 9 pts
- VENIRE 9 pts
- VENTER 9 pts
- VERIER 9 pts
- VERITE 9 pts
- VETOER 9 pts
- ENGIRT 7 pts
- ERINGO 7 pts
- ERRING 7 pts
- GERENT 7 pts
- GOITER 7 pts
- GOITRE 7 pts
- GORIER 7 pts
- IGNORE 7 pts
- REGENT 7 pts
- REGION 7 pts
- REGRET 7 pts
- RINGER 7 pts
- TEEING 7 pts
- TOEING 7 pts
- TONGER 7 pts
- TRIGON 7 pts
- ENTIRE 6 pts
- ETRIER 6 pts
- IRONER 6 pts
- NORITE 6 pts
- ORIENT 6 pts
- RENTER 6 pts
- RERENT 6 pts
- RETINE 6 pts
- RETIRE 6 pts
- RETORE 6 pts
- RETORN 6 pts
- RIOTER 6 pts
- TONIER 6 pts
- TRIENE 6 pts
5-letter words
65 words- HOVER 11 pts
- EIGHT 9 pts
- GIRTH 9 pts
- GIVEN 9 pts
- GIVER 9 pts
- GOETH 9 pts
- GRITH 9 pts
- GROVE 9 pts
- HENGE 9 pts
- HINGE 9 pts
- HONGI 9 pts
- NEIGH 9 pts
- NIGHT 9 pts
- OGIVE 9 pts
- OHING 9 pts
- ENVOI 8 pts
- ETHER 8 pts
- EVENT 8 pts
- EVERT 8 pts
- EVITE 8 pts
- HERON 8 pts
- HIREE 8 pts
- HIRER 8 pts
- HONER 8 pts
- ITHER 8 pts
- NERVE 8 pts
- NEVER 8 pts
- NIEVE 8 pts
- NORTH 8 pts
- OTHER 8 pts
- OVERT 8 pts
- OVINE 8 pts
- REIVE 8 pts
- REVET 8 pts
- RHINO 8 pts
- EGRET 6 pts
- ERGOT 6 pts
- GENET 6 pts
- GENIE 6 pts
- GENRE 6 pts
- GENRO 6 pts
- GIRON 6 pts
- GONER 6 pts
- GREEN 6 pts
- GREET 6 pts
- GRIOT 6 pts
- GROIN 6 pts
- INGOT 6 pts
- REGIE 6 pts
- REIGN 6 pts
- RENIG 6 pts
- REORG 6 pts
- RERIG 6 pts
- ENTER 5 pts
- INERT 5 pts
- INTER 5 pts
- INTRO 5 pts
- IRONE 5 pts
- NITER 5 pts
- NITRE 5 pts
- NITRO 5 pts
- NOTER 5 pts
- RENTE 5 pts
- RETIE 5 pts
- RETRO 5 pts
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