"sleepover" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleepover.wav [US] Forms: sleepovers [plural]
Etymology: sleep + over Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sleep|over}} sleep + over Head templates: {{en-noun}} sleepover (plural sleepovers)
  1. The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children. Translations (the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house): festa de pijama [feminine] (Catalan), logeerpartijtje [neuter] (Dutch), logeerpartij [feminine] (Dutch), yökylään jääminen (Finnish), yökyläily (Finnish), soirée pyjama [feminine] (French), Übernachtung [feminine] (German), festa di pigiama [feminine] (Italian), nocowanie [neuter] (Polish), festa do pijama [feminine] (Portuguese), ночёвка (nočóvka) [feminine] (Russian), переночёвка (perenočóvka) [feminine] (Russian), переночева́нье (perenočevánʹje) [neuter] (Russian), pijamada [feminine] (Spanish), fiesta de pijamas [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sleepover-en-noun-wBP3hNn6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of "the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house": 81 19
  2. An overnight guest.
    Sense id: en-sleepover-en-noun-8PB0XEnH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51

Inflected forms

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