overnight

UK /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/ US /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/
noun 4adj 3adv 2verb 2

Definitions

adv

1

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

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

They delivered the package overnight.

2

In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

The change seemed to happen overnight.

Overnight, the vivacious young actress became a caricature, a relic of the previous decade, whose hard-partying socialite image seemed frivolous and out of touch amid the ensuing years of the Great Depression.

adj

1

Occurring between dusk and dawn.

The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.

2

Complete before the next morning.

Don't expect overnight delivery.

Federal Express handled 225 million overnight and second-day packages, cornering a 50-percent share of the entire domestic overnight market[…].

3

For which participants stay overnight.

They sent their kids to overnight camp.

We went on an overnight ski trip.

verb

1

To stay overnight; to spend the night.

His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.

2

To send something for delivery the next day.

We can overnight you the documents for signature.

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