HOW TO PRONOUNCE
overnight
/ˈoʊvɚˈnaɪt/
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What does overnight mean?
adverb
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
- (figuratively) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
adjective
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
More meanings (8)
adjective
- Complete before the next morning.
- For which participants stay overnight.
verb
- To stay overnight; to spend the night.
- To send something for delivery the next day.
noun
- An item delivered or completed overnight.
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈoʊvɚˈnaɪt/
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So at dinner-time all the sheep in the sheds, put in overnight in anticipation of such a contingency, are reported shorn.
If the earth is getting dry by this date, soak the seed overnight before sowing and furrow down to moist soil.
More book examples (3)
When the morning came, your language and conduct showed that you were absolutely ignorant of what you had said and done overnight.
The friendly persuasions of Hedor induced the stranger to remain with him two days, though he had expected to stay only overnight.
They had remained at Aladdin's Cave overnight and marched farther south next morning, approaching a line of dense drift, without seeing anything.