sleepover

See also: sleep over

English

Etymology

From sleep +‎ over.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sleepover (plural sleepovers)

1. The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.

   Hyponyms: pyjama party, slumber party

   • 1979 August 18, Ilana Weinstock, “Holy Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 10:

     Since it would be too late to notify the many people whom we hope are coming, we are really working hard to find other facilities — probably to rent a hall for the meetings; perhaps arrange sleep-overs at Israeli members' homes.

2. An overnight guest.

Translations

the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house

• Catalan: festa de pijama f
• Danish: overnatning (da) c
• Dutch: logeerpartijtje (nl) n, logeerpartij (nl) f
• Finnish: yökylään jääminen, yökyläily
• French: soirée pyjama (fr) f
• German: Übernachtung (de) f
• Hungarian: ottalvós buli
• Italian: festa di pigiama f
• Polish: nocowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: festa do pijama f
• Russian: ночёвка (ru) f (nočóvka), переночёвка f (perenočóvka), переночева́нье n (perenočevánʹje)
• Spanish: pijamada f, fiesta de pijamas f, piyamada f

an overnight guest

Further reading

• sleepover on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• overpeels, oversleep