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overnight
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)
- 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; […].
- (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.
- 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:
Translations
Adjective
overnight (not comparable)
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- Complete before the next morning.
- Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.
Translations
Verb
overnight (third-person singular simple present overnights, present participle overnighting, simple past and past participle overnighted)
- (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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 128:
- (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day. [from 20th c.]
Translations
Noun
overnight (plural overnights)
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- (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.
- 2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time
- (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
Translations
overnight From the web:
- what overnight means
- what overnight shipping mean
- what overnight oats
- what overnight jobs are hiring
- what's overnight shipping
- what's overnight mail
- what's overnight inbound
- what's overnight hours
tonight
English
Alternative forms
- to-night (obsolete)
- to-nite (US, informal, archaic)
- tonite (US, informal)
- t'night (US, informal)
Etymology
From Middle English tonyght, to ni?t, from Old English t? niht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??na?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Adverb
tonight (not comparable)
- During the night following the current day.
- (obsolete) Last night.
Translations
Noun
tonight (usually uncountable, plural tonights)
- The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
Translations
Anagrams
- hotting
Middle English
Adverb
tonight
- Alternative form of tonyght
Noun
tonight
- Alternative form of tonyght
tonight From the web:
- what tonight's moon
- what tonight weather
- what tonight's moon means
- what tonight's moon phase
- what tonight lottery
- what tonight's full moon means
- what tonight lottery numbers
- what tonight lotto numbers
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