overnighter

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

Meanwhile, wildlife tourism has turned Knepp into a successful business that employs more people than it did when it was a farm. Springtime overnighters snuggling down in a luxury treehouse after a soak in the open-air, wood-fired Swedish Hikki bathtub may hear nightingales serenading their consorts

2

Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.

3

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 least for a while, like an overnighter in the Adirondacks.

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