different between overnight vs pernoctation

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over +? night.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?(?)?na?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Alternative forms

• overnite (informal)

Adverb

overnight (not comparable)

1. During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
2. (figuratively) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     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.

Translations

Adjective

overnight (not comparable)

1. Occurring between dusk and dawn.

2. Complete before the next morning.
3. Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.

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Verb

overnight (third-person singular simple present overnights, present participle overnighting, simple past and past participle overnighted)

1. (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 128:

     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. (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day. [from 20th c.]

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Noun

overnight (plural overnights)

1. Items delivered or completed overnight.

2. An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
3. (television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
   • 2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time

     Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.

   • 2006, A. D. Brown, News-Daze (page 3)

     The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.

4. (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

Translations

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pernoct?ti? (“act of spending of the night (doing something, particularly praying)”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns indicating an action or process, or the result of an action or process). Pernoct?ti? is derived from Latin pernoct?tus (“having spent the night”) + -i? (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); pernoct?tus is the perfect passive participle of pernoct? (“to spend the night”), from per- (prefix with the sense of completion or entirety forming verbs) + nox (“night; darkness”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night; evening (?)”), possibly from *neg?- (“bare, naked”) in the sense of becoming bare of sunlight).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??n?k?te??n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??n?k?te??(?)n/, /p???n?k-/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: per?noct?a?tion

Noun

pernoctation (countable and uncountable, plural pernoctations) (formal)

1. (uncountable) The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this; an overnight stay.
2. (uncountable) The action of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (countable, religion, chiefly Christianity, obsolete) A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed; a vigil.

Usage notes

The sense of a religious watch may apply either to a holy vigil or to diabolical activities.

Related terms

• pernoctate

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References

Anagrams

• percontation