overnighter
noun
overnighter is a noun meaning “A person who overnights, or stays overnight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-V-E-R-N-I-G-H-T-E-R and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of overnighter is overnighters.
What does overnighter mean?
noun
- 1
A person who overnights, or stays overnight.
- 2
Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- 3
informalA stay or event that takes place overnight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce overnighter?
Overnighter has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of overnighter
- overnighters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is overnighter?
Overnighter appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does overnighter come from?
From overnight + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).