sleep over
verb
sleep over is a verb meaning “To spend the night as a guest in someone's home” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-L-E-E-P-O-V-E-R.
What does sleep over mean?
verb
- 1
To spend the night as a guest in someone's home.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sleep over?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-sleep_over.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sleep over
- sleeps over present, singular, he/she/it
- sleeping over participle, present
- slept over participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with sleep over
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: sleepover (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Sleep over in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to sleep over:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | passer la nuit, parnuire |
| German | übernachten, nächtigen |
| Portuguese | dormir fora, pousar, fazer um pousão, pernoitar |
| Spanish | pernoctar, pasar la noche |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.