overnighter
/ˌoʊvɚnˈaɪtɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "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."
Etymology
From overnight + -er.