overnighter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
  3. A stay or event that takes place overnight. informal
    — 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.

词形变化

overnighters plural

词源

From overnight + -er.
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