overnighter

[ oh-ver-nahy-ter ]

noun

1. an overnight stay or trip.
2. a traveler or visitor making an overnight stay.
3. something serving overnight travel, as a special train or an overnight bag.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overnighter¹

First recorded in 1955–60; overnight + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The parrots are beloved overnighters here, and residents are on constant alert for poachers.

From Los Angeles Times

The postwar years were less kind to the hotel, as fewer overnighters arrived by train and more people chose watching television over frequenting nightclubs.

From Seattle Times

The tent isn’t worth it for an overnighter.

From Los Angeles Times

By Sunday she will have taken 20 solo official plane or car trips outside of Washington, including a handful of overnighters on the West Coast and in the Southwest.

From Seattle Times

First the foreigners vanished, then the Egyptian overnighters, he said.

From New York Times

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