"sleepover" meaning in English

See sleepover in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleepover.wav Forms: sleepovers [plural]
Etymology: From 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), overnatning [common-gender] (Danish), logeerpartijtje [neuter] (Dutch), logeerpartij [feminine] (Dutch), yökylään jääminen (Finnish), yökyläily (Finnish), soirée pyjama [feminine] (French), Übernachtung [feminine] (German), ottalvós buli (Hungarian), 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), piyamada [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: 45 55 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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 27 73

Inflected forms

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