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English Dictionary: overnight by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overnight
adv
  1. during or for the length of one night; "the fish marinates overnight"
  2. happening in a short time or with great speed; "these solutions cannot be found overnight!"
adj
  1. lasting, open, or operating through the whole night; "a nightlong vigil"; "an all-night drugstore"; "an overnight trip"
    Synonym(s): nightlong, all-night, overnight
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Overnight \O"ver*night`\, n.
      The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening.
      [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Overnight \O"ver*night"\, 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.
  
               I had been telling her all that happened overnight.
                                                                              --Dickens.
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