sleepover

noun

sleep·​over ˈslēp-ˌō-vər 

1

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

2

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

Examples of sleepover in a Sentence

Our daughter is having a sleepover for her friends tomorrow.

Recent Examples on the Web

Past trips have included behind-the-scenes tours of the New York Stock Exchange, a Smithsonian sleepover and Yellowstone National Park. —Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026

Last season, Smith and Celebrini asked Toffoli to have a sleepover in their hotel room during a road trip in Colorado. —Dan Robson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026

McKenna also loved spending time with her best friend Aaliyah, and the two girls who hold sleepovers, make dance videos and watch the sunset together, the obituary said. —Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026

Each episode broke the rules of society and sometimes even of physics, like when Debra (Jouhari) bends the laws of time and space to force emotional intimacy on Debra and Debra in the sleepover episode. —Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for sleepover

• carryover
• changeover
• crossover
• cutover
• flashover
• hangover
• holdover
• layover
• leftover
• makeover
• moreover
• passover

Kids Definition

sleepover

noun

sleep·​over ˈslēp-ō-vər 

: an overnight stay at another's home or an instance of having others stay at one's own home