sleepover

noun

Definition of sleepovernext
as in field trip

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Recent Examples of sleepover Other photos showed her daughter Chicago and nieces Dream Kardashian, 9, and True Thompson, 8, having a sleepover, as well as Kim helping her youngest son Psalm on a dirt bike and riding with him and Saint. — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026 Yet that did not stop Rome Seymour and Lyric Medeiros form breaking the reality TV land speed record for showmances when the two swapped spit and shared a sleepover just days into the current 28th season of Big Brother. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026 Social media commentators soon began comparing Wells’ death to the death of Tamla Harsford, a Black mother who died in 2018 during an adult sleepover with a group of white women. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026 Not helping is that Joe is shocked to learn their 12-year-old daughter is at a sleepover and the neighbors are coming for dinner. — ABC News, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for sleepover
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleepover
  1. field trip
  2. stay
  3. visit
  4. homestay
  5. sojourn
Noun
  • Milly liked the careful way Val took notes and photographs on their field trips.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • All three incidents happened during a field trip to the Morgan Hill Aquatic Center in June, police said.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
Definition of field trip
Noun
  • His collaboration with big companies to make sure that everything from groceries to rent stay sky high.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In the guest book, in 2024, a guest creatively wrote a six-entry (three days and three nights) account of their stay there, a descent into madness at the hands of the structure’s steady creaking and the sounds of twigs snapping in the woods below.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of stay
Noun
  • Novo co-founder Michael Rangel notes that even during COVID-19, large banks often required in-person visits.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also left Friday for a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to meet with MBS and the Pakistani prime minister, according to Turkey’s state media Anadolu Agency.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of visit
Noun
  • What a Homestay Offers That a Hotel Can’t A homestay — staying as a guest in a local’s home rather than a hotel, hostel or campsite — sits at the intersection of two trends reshaping travel.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 June 2026
  • Unlike a hotel stay, which is largely transactional, a homestay puts travelers inside the daily rhythm of a destination.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2026
Definition of homestay
Noun
  • The five-day, four-night sojourn begins in Rome, where the luxe train departs in the early evening.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The resulting book, a deliberately meandering account of her Steel City sojourn, weds memoir, travelogue, philosophical rumination and journalistic investigation.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of sojourn

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“Sleepover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepover. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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