overnighter

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overnighter

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From overnight + -er.

noun 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.
Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
informal A stay or event that takes place overnight. 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 le

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@misc{overnighter_2026,
  title = {overnighter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overnighter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}