🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

pernoctación

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /peɾ.nok.taˈsjon/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Overnight/ˌoʊ.vɚˈnaɪt/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El hotel ofrece tarifas especiales para pernoctaciones largas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Done, occurring, or staying for the duration of a night or from one day to the next.

    "We booked an overnight stay at a cozy mountain lodge."
As adverb
  1. 1

    During the course of a night, or very quickly and suddenly.

    "The small café became popular overnight after being featured on a food blog."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, combining 'over-' (throughout the duration of) and 'night', tracing back to Old English 'ofer' and 'neaht'. Historically used to describe conditions or events spanning the duration of the night, it evolved to encompass temporary lodging and sudden, rapid occurrences.

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