Overnight: Definition and part of speech

Overnight

  1. adv. In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight.
  2. n. The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Leave a Comment