overnighter

[oh-ver-nahy-ter]

noun

1. an overnight stay or trip.

2. a traveler or visitor making an overnight stay.

3. something serving overnight travel, as a special train or an overnight bag.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overnighter¹

First recorded in 1955–60; overnight + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Sustenance for an overnighter can be covered by using the Airport in the Sky Restaurant near the Catalina Airport as a feed station.

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The parrots are beloved overnighters here, and residents are on constant alert for poachers.

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The postwar years were less kind to the hotel, as fewer overnighters arrived by train and more people chose watching television over frequenting nightclubs.

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The tent isn’t worth it for an overnighter.

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By Sunday she will have taken 20 solo official plane or car trips outside of Washington, including a handful of overnighters on the West Coast and in the Southwest.

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