stay over

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stay over

verb stays over · staying over · stayed over

To stay overnight in a place other than one's home; to sleep over. Mum, can I stay over at a friend's house tomorrow?
Similar: lodge, stop, keep, quarter, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stay over, stop off, stop over, tarry
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, over. We usually have Mom to stay over Christmas.

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@misc{stay_over_2026,
  title = {stay over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stay%20over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}