overnight
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Is overnight a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of overnight?
Definition
adv (English)
1. (figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.Examples: "The change seemed to happen overnight."; "Overnight, the vivacious young actress became a caricature, a relic of the previous decade, whose hard-partying socialite image seemed frivolous and out of touch amid the ensuing years of the Great Depression."; ""You can't overnight turn everyone into an expert on everything. [...].""figurativelynot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night.Examples: "His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744."intransitive
2. (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day.Examples: "We can overnight you the documents for signature."UStransitive
noun (English)
1. (television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.Examples: "Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come."; "The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights."in-plural
2. (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.Examples: "Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at overnight, She might have been o'erta'en"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary