Usually means: Duration from evening to morning.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word overnight:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overnight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overnight: Merriam-Webster
  3. overnight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overnight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overnight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overnight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overnight, overnight: Wordnik
  8. overnight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overnight: Wiktionary
  10. overnight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overnight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overnight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overnight, overnight: Dictionary.com
  14. overnight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overnight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Overnight (album), Overnight (disambiguation), Overnight, The Overnight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overnight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overnight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overnight: Rhymezone
  20. overnight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overnight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overnight: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overnight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overnight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Derivatives (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

(Note: See overnighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
adverb:  (figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
adjective:  Occurring between dusk and dawn.
adjective:  Complete before the next morning.
adjective:  For which participants stay overnight.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night.
verb:  (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day.
noun:  Items delivered or completed overnight.
noun:  An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

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