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▪ I. overnight, over night, advb. phr. (n., a.)|ˌəʊvəˈnaɪt|
[f. over prep. 18 + night n.]
A. advb. phr.
1. Before the night (as considered in relation to the following day); on the preceding evening; the night before (with implication that the result of the action continues till the following morning).
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1500 (1549) Deiphebus had hym prayed ouer nyght To be a frend and helpyng to Criseyde. c1440Generydes 2028 They..dressid all ther harnes ouer nyght, That they myght on the morow..be redy to Batell. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Baptism, The parentes shall geue knowledge ouer nyght or in the mornyng. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. iii. 174 Claudio..swore hee would..before the whole congregation shame her with what he saw o're night. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 296 Their exercises which were giuen ouernight. 1711Addison Spect. No. 105 ⁋1 His Head ached every Morning with reading of Men over⁓night. 1886J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1896) 124 We had ordered a duck for dinner over night. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. ix. 227 His fire was laid overnight, and he lighted it himself when he pleased.
2. During the night, through the night (till the following morning).
1535Coverdale Neh. xiii. 20 Then remayned the chapmen and marchauntes once or twyce ouer nighte without Ierusalem. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. ii. 133 And so, good rest. Pro. As wretches haue ore-night That wait for execution in the morne. 1879Scribner's Mag. XIX. 682/2 If I feel tired..I'll stay overnight. 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 49 He preferred to stay overnight with the family.
3. In the course of a single night; hence, rapidly, instantaneously; without any perceptible or significant passage of time.
1939Joyce Finnegans Wake ii. 378 The unnamed non⁓irishblooder that becomes a Greenislander overnight! 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags 246 Alastair's battalion found itself overnight converted from a unit in the early stages of training into first line troops. 1955H. Roth Sleeper viii. 60 Adults don't change—rarely, at any rate, and not overnight. 1955‘A. Gilbert’ Is she Dead Too? ii. 30 She'd been there two years when Alice Poulden died. It all seemed to happen overnight as you might say. 1957F. & R. Lockridge Practise to Deceive (1959) vi. 90 Lane..was already ‘the’ polo player. A handicap justifying such phrasing is not acquired over⁓night. 1963Cambr. Rev. 4 May 400/1 An article which overnight catapulted him to fame. 1966Word Study Dec. 5/2 Overnight the vernacular of space became a popular idiom. 1972P. Green Shadow of Parthenon 15 The classics have nearly half a century of revolutionary critical development to catch up on: the thing cannot be achieved overnight. 1972Observer 12 Nov. 36/7 The great original thinker, the noble if flawed human being, the entranced and hallowed poet-sage—all these have virtually been blown away overnight. 1973[see ouster1].
B. n.
1. The preceding evening. (Now chiefly U.S.)
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxii. (1887) 117 Before the ouernightes diet be thoroughly digested. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. iv. 23 If I had giuen you this at ouer-night, She might haue beene ore-tane. 1607― Timon iv. iii. 227 To cure thy o're-nights surfet. 1705S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 170 Came to Town the over night before that general meeting. 1824Compl. Hist. Murd. Weare App. 19 He had heard the report of a Gun in the lane on the overnight. 1871Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 28 The air,..freshened by the over-night's storm.
2. A stop or halt lasting for one night; also, a person who stops at a place for a single night (see quots.); something that arrived during the night.
1959Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Oct. 573/4 A highly convincing background of aviation and suburbia, dinettes, lounges (domestic, not airport), overnights and rosters. 1964Economist 11 Jan. 114/2 The YHA..had a record number of..‘overnights’ (the total number of nights that beds were occupied). 1968J. Lock Lady Policeman xiii. 117 The gaoler brings the ‘overnights’ from the cells. 1974Guardian 23 Mar. 14/3 With two overnights in Interlaken..it sounded..soothing enough. 1976C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) i. 4 Ten minutes to spare, pounding up the stairs to the Detective Bureau... Time to skim through the overnights before the morning rundown.
C. attrib. or adj.
1. Of or belonging to the previous evening; done, happening, etc., overnight.
1824Galt Rothelan I. ii. xi. 250 He found no other traces of the Scottish army there, than the broken weapons of the overnight assault. 1859Lang Wand. India 19 The result of the two over-night glasses of brandy. 1870Daily News 25 Nov., The limit of my overnight journey.
2. a. Designating a price or value as at the end of business on a particular day. b. Applied to money lent or borrowed, or otherwise made available, from one day to the next.
1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 12/1 Finishing on the other side very strongly, the overnight prices were well above those ruling in the ‘House’ at the close of yesterday afternoon. 1928Daily Mail 9 Aug. 18/6 Borrowers occasionally paid up to 4½ per cent. for fresh overnight money. 1930M. Clark Home Trade xxix. 233 Sometimes the loan is merely one from one day to the next—often termed ‘overnight loans’; at other times it is for a short period of say seven days (‘weekly loans’). 1973Times 2 Feb. 14/7 New York money men have been known to quake in the knowledge that they have on deposit $1,000m of overnight money—money which can be withdrawn the next morning.
3. Of a person: transient, staying overnight; fig., instantaneously esteemed or popular. Of a thing: achieved or accomplished rapidly.
1934[see air hostess s.v. air n.1 III. 4]. 1960News Chron. 18 Mar. 6/6 He has become an over-night hero to countless people. 1961Sunday Express 7 May 15/5 One really eye-catching picture in a top magazine, and she is an overnight star. 1974S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight iv. 86 The war, like all wars, had created overnight millionaires. 1974Hawkey & Bingham Wild Card xv. 127 His novel advances in the field of biodegradable materials..had brought him an overnight reputation.
4. Special collocations, as overnight bag, overnight case, a light case or holdall carried by a traveller; overnight telegram, a telegram intended for delivery the following morning.
1925New Yorker 17 Oct. 32/2 This is simply wonderful for travelers, though, as an *overnight bag, it has the disadvantage of having no room in the bag for anything except, perhaps, a French nightie. 1955‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren i. 2 He took the overnight bag from me. 1972M. Crichton Terminal Man i. v. 43 She lifted a small blue overnight bag.
1934Webster, *Overnight case. 1935Montgomery Ward Catal. 582 Wards finest—tray fitted overnight case. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands xiv. 238, I indicated my small overnight case which was lying..on the bunk. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 265 The overnight case belonged to Sneed.
1955P.O. Guide July 309 *Overnight telegrams are accepted between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily for delivery next day..normally by the first post. 1974Ibid. Nov. 367 An Overnight telegram may be sent between 8 a.m. and 10.30 p.m. for delivery, normally by first post, the following morning... The charge is 40p for 10 words or less and 2p for each extra word.
▪ II. overˈnight, v.
[f. the adv. phr.; cf. G. übernachten.]
intr. To pass the night (at or in); to lodge for the night.
[1876Geo. Eliot Let. 2 Sept. (1956) VI. 275 We saw no English or American visitors, except such as ‘übernachten’ there and pass on.] 1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians xiii. 177 He invites us to over-night at his house. Will you go? 1962Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 Nov. 6/6 When a stewardess ‘overnights’ she spends the night in the city where the flight terminates. 1965Harper's Bazaar Dec. 80/1 Anyone who has over-nighted in pre-Hilton Istanbul. 1971R. Falkirk Chill Factor v. 47 Her Icelandic philosophy was immensely popular..wherever Icelandair overnighted. 1971Advocate-News (Barbados) 20 Mar. 1/2 At the conclusion of his South American visits the President and party will again over night in Barbados on March 31 and leave for home on April 1. 1972Drive Spring 49/2 With the horses provided you could trek deep into the forest, overnighting in a bivouac. 1976J. B. Hilton Gamekeeper's Gallows xviii. 182 Fletcher over-nighted at Derby.
Hence overˈnighting vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1948K. Anthony Lambs vi. 132 The clambering in and out of stage-coaches, the overnighting in strange taverns. 1966Guardian 19 Mar. 1/3 Overnighting facilities for climbers have been cut off, and visitors generally discouraged. 1969‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass x. 95 D'you have a spare shirt for this big man here? He didn't plan on overnighting. |