overnighter

English

Etymology

overnight +‎ -er

Noun

overnighter (plural overnighters)

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.

   • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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. (informal) A stay or event that takes place overnight.
   • 2007 March 11, Steven Heighton, “Survivor”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.

Translations

one who overnights

• Finnish: yöpyjä (fi)

something that serves overnight travel

• Finnish: yö- (fi) (in compounds, such as), yölento (flight), yöjuna (fi) (train)

stay or event

• Finnish: yö- (fi) (in compounds, such as), yökylä (fi) (visiting a friend), yöretki (night trip)