overnighter means A person who overnights, or stays overnight. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Etymology
From overnight + -er.
noun
- A person who overnights, or stays overnight.“1981, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I was totally unprepared (my "padding," my apartment) for an overnighter, but I invited him.”
- Something that serves overnight travel, such as a night train.
- A stay or event that takes place overnight.“To tackle the narrative challenge of Cave’s extreme isolation (for most of the winter he’s confined to a tiny hut, lacking even the sun for solace), Harding populates his solitude through reveries of his marriage to a Danish woman, whose pregnancy and calamitous labor make his own ordeal look, at least for a while, like an overnighter in the Adirondacks.”