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o⋅ver⋅night

  [adv. oh-ver-nahyt; adj., n. oh-ver-nahyt; v. oh-ver-nahyt]
Use overnight in a Sentence
–adverb
1. for or during the night: to stay overnight.
2. on or during the previous evening: Preparations were made overnight.
3. very quickly; suddenly: New suburbs sprang up overnight.
–adjective
4. done, made, occurring, or continuing during the night: an overnight stop; an overnight decision.
5. staying for one night: a group of overnight guests.
6. designed to be used on a trip or for a journey lasting one night or only a few nights.
7. intended for delivery on the next day: overnight letters; an overnight package.
8. valid for one night: The corporal got an overnight pass.
9. occurring suddenly or within a very short time: a comedian who became an overnight sensation.
–noun
10. Informal. an overnight stay or trip: Our daughter had an overnight at a friend's house.
11. Informal. a permit for overnight absence, as from a college dormitory: She had an overnight the night of the prom.
12. the previous evening.
–verb (used without object)
13. to have an overnight stay or trip: We'll overnight in Denver, then fly on to San Diego.
Origin:
1325–75; ME; see over-, night
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o·ver·night   (ō'vər-nīt')   
adj.  
  1. Lasting for, extending over, or remaining during a night: an overnight trip; an overnight guest.
  2. For use over a single night or for a short journey: overnight supplies.
  3. Mailed for guaranteed delivery on the next day: an overnight package.
  4. Happening as if in a single night; sudden: an overnight success.
adv.   (ō'vər-nīt')
  1. During or for the length of the night: Let the meat marinate overnight.
  2. In or as if in the course of one night; suddenly: became a sensation overnight.
n.  An overnight stay or trip.
v.   (ō'vər-nīt') o·ver·night·ed, o·ver·night·ing, o·ver·nights

v.   intr.
To spend the night: overnighting at a country inn.
v.   tr.
To send by mail or other courier for delivery the next day.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Overnight

O"ver*night`\, n. The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening. [R.] --Shak.

Overnight

O"ver*night"\, adv. In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight.

I had been telling her all that happened overnight. --Dickens.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : overnight
Spanish: de una noche; de viaje,
German: Nacht-…,
Japanese: １夜の
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overnight 
c.1374, from over + night (q.v.). Originally "on the preceding evening," gen. sense of "during the night" is attested from 1535. Meaning "in the course of a single night, hence seemingly instantaneously" is attested from 1939.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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