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sleepover

sleepover

81 2.1
A night when someone, usually a child, stays at a friend's house to play and sleep
  • noun
  • /ˈsliːpˌoʊvər/
translation icon : fiesta de pijamas
  • Do you want to come to my sleepover?
  • annual sleepover

We bought these specifically for the sleepover Penguin PJS.

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Examples

  • The best thing about a sleepover is when it's at somebody else's house.

  • I could tell about the many sleepovers we've had at each other's houses.

  • We're going to have our last sleepover party.

  • I wish we could all have a big sleepover at my house.

    Blog text (14)
  • Then, I get to have a giant sleepover every night with my best friend.

    Blog text (32)
  • She told me this was a sleepover.

  • I called Michelle right away; we patted ourselves on the back and planned for a sleepover the next weekend.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • We'll decide to get some matching PJS and plan a sleepover ASAP.

  • My friends are coming over for a sleepover this weekend.

  • After the movie, we stayed up late talking during our sleepover.

Synonyms

slumber party
vssleepover
  • Informal
31 2.1

A night when friends stay at someone's house to sleep, talk, and play

is a simpler overnight visit without planned games or special nightwear
stayover
vssleepover
3.9

For use when a person spends the night away as a guest

is a child-focused social overnight visit at a friend's house

Surface Forms

sleepover singular
sleepovers plural

Morphology

sleepover = sleep (transparent) = over + sleep

The compound 'sleep' + 'over' straightforwardly denotes staying overnight at someone's place, a meaning readily inferable by learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

The word sleepover comes from two simple words, sleep ('to sleep') and over ('to stay at someone else's place overnight'). So a sleepover is literally staying the night at a friend's house for fun.