Overnight

Quick meaning: Overnight is an adverb meaning During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.

Meaning

During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
2. Occurring between dusk and dawn.
3. Complete before the next morning.
4. For which participants stay overnight.
5. (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night.
6. (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day.
7. An item delivered or completed overnight.

Example Sentences

They delivered the package overnight.

The change seemed to happen overnight.

Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.

[…]then put the glass into a damp cellar, on sand, and the gold will overnight shoot into crystals, which take out, and let them dissolve again in distilled vinegar[…].

Word Forms

• over night
• overnite
• overnights
• overnighting
• overnighted

Synonyms for overnight

Depending on context, synonyms include long, nightlong.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nightlong, long, all-night, late-night, tonight, nocturnal.

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