sleep over

sleep over
verb
stay overnight
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The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party

• Syn: ↑stay over
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sleepover
• Hypernyms: ↑lodge
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

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sleep over
To sleep at another person's house overnight, esp after a party (sleepˈover noun)
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Main Entry: ↑sleep

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ˌsleep ˈover [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they sleep over he/she/it sleeps over present participle sleeping over past tense slept over past participle slept over] phrasal verb
to sleep at someone else’s house for one night

Mum, can Billy sleep over on Saturday?

Thesaurus: to spend time with friendssynonym to sleep, or to go to sleepsynonym
Main entry: sleep

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spend the night at a place other than one's own home

Katie was asked to sleep over with Jenny

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sleep over [phrasal verb]
: to stay overnight at another person's house

My mother said that you could sleep over on Saturday.

— see also ↑sleepover
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Main Entry: ↑sleep

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ˌsleep ˈover derived
to stay the night at sb else's home

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It's very late now— why don't you sleep over?

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Can I sleep over at my friend's house?

related noun ↑sleepover
Main entry: ↑sleepderived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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