overnighter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]overnighter (plural overnighters)
- 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.
- 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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
- 1981, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- (informal) A stay or event that takes place overnight.
- 2007 March 11, Steven Heighton, “Survivor”, in New York Times[2]:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]something that serves overnight travel