(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something happens ~, it happens throughout the night or at some point during the night.
The decision was reached ~...
ADV: ADV after v
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Overnight is also an adjective.
Travel and ~ accommodation are included...
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
You can say that something happens ~ when it happens very quickly and unexpectedly.
The rules are not going to change ~...
Almost ~, 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 ~ 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 ~ bag at Mary’s house.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
If you ~ somewhere, you spend the night there.
They had told her she would be ~ing in Sydney.
VERB: V prep/adv
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Overnight is also a noun.
Overnights can be arranged.
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