sleepover

noun sleep·over \ ˈslēp-ō-vər \

|Updated on: 13 Jul 2018

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Definition of sleepover

1 : an overnight stay (as at another's home)

2 : an instance of hosting a sleepover in one's home

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Examples of sleepover in a Sentence

Our daughter is having a sleepover for her friends tomorrow.

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The case so rattled the area, according to news reports at the time, that homeowners began locking their doors at night and parents stopped letting their children attend sleepovers.

— laura j. nelson, latimes.com, "Brown will consider new DNA testing in Chino Hills murder case," 5 July 2018
Single rooms or doubles (for those who still want to have all-night sleepovers with friends).

— tanika davis, baltimoresun.com, "If parents went to summer camp," 27 June 2018
An 18-year-old, reportedly just out of high school, has been charged with trying to rape his friend’s mother during a sleepover in Tennessee.

— avi selk, Washington Post, "A teen tried to rape his friend’s mother at a sleepover — until she pulled a gun, police say," 6 June 2018
Stafford, a Charleston seventh grader, said that since the strike began, he's attended sleepovers and played Xbox games.

— john raby, USA TODAY, "No fix in sight as West Virginia teacher strike enters third week," 5 Mar. 2018
Once upon a time there was something noble about skipping a grade school sleepover, a friend’s birthday party or a senior trip to Cabo.

— meryl davis, SELF, "Meryl Davis: Finding New Purpose After Life as an Olympian," 30 May 2018
Although their arrival at the Alamo is documented by a videographer, a certain amount of secrecy surrounds the rings’ ensuing sleepover.

— krista torralva, San Antonio Express-News, "UTSA tradition puts class rings in Alamo overnight," 10 May 2018
Shane Nichols, his daughter and the two other girls who attended the sleepover had never been done the zipline.

— aimee green, OregonLive.com, "After teen breaks 7 bones from zipline fall, jury awards $315,000," 9 Apr. 2018
The museum began offering the sleepovers in 2006, when the film series premiered.

— kate silver, chicagotribune.com, "To bring back visitors, museums are having to draw on their own creativity," 25 Apr. 2018

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1965

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Definition of sleepover for English Language Learners

: a party where one or more people (especially children) stay overnight at one person's house

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noun sleep·over \ ˈslēp-ō-vər \

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