overnightadv/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

• 1

  During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.

  • Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
  • They delivered the package overnight.
• 2

  In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

  • 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.

overnightadj/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

• 1

  Occurring between dusk and dawn.

  • The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.
• 2

  Complete before the next morning.

  • Don't expect overnight delivery.
  • Federal Express handled 225 million overnight and second-day packages, cornering a 50-percent share of the entire domestic overnight market[…].
• 3

  For which participants stay overnight.

  • They sent their kids to overnight camp.
  • We went on an overnight ski trip.

overnightverb/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

• 1

  To stay overnight; to spend the night.

  • 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.
• 2

  To send something for delivery the next day.

  • We can overnight you the documents for signature.

overnightnoun/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

• 1

  An item delivered or completed overnight.

  • Have you looked at the overnights yet?
• 2

  An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.

  • Some will also have to work less coveted schedules like overnights and weekends just to start building their career and demo tape.
• 3

  broadcastingmediatelevisionViewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.

  • 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.
• 4

  obsoleteThe fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

  • Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at overnight, She might have been o'erta'en