transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)naɪt ]
( overnights, overnighting, overnighted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something happens overnight , it happens throughout the night or at some point during the night.
The decision was reached overnight...
ADV : ADV after v
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Overnight is also an adjective.
Travel and overnight accommodation are included...
ADJ : ADJ n
2.
You can say that something happens overnight when it happens very quickly and unexpectedly.
The rules are not going to change overnight...
Almost overnight, she had aged ten years and become fat.
ADV : ADV after v
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Overnight is also an adjective.
In 1970 he became an overnight success in America.
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
Overnight bags or clothes are ones that you take when you go and stay somewhere for one or two nights.
He realized he’d left his overnight bag at Mary’s house.
ADJ : ADJ n
4.
If you overnight somewhere, you spend the night there.
They had told her she would be overnighting in Sydney.
VERB : V prep / adv
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Overnight is also a noun.
Overnights can be arranged.
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