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Definition of Sleep over
1. Verb. Stay overnight. "The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party"
Definition of Sleep over
1. Verb. to spend the night as a guest in someone's home ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleep Over
Literary usage of Sleep over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1863)
"... patients wakened at short intervals in order to give wine or food or medicine,
makes the following remarks upon the influence of sleep over disease. ..."
2. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873: Including a Full and Complete by Joel Tyler Headley (1873)
"Acton's Forty-eight Hours without sleep over.—Change in Military Commanders in
the City.— General Brown relinquishes his Command. ^-True Words. ..."
3. The Bengal Law Reports of Decisions of the High Court at Fort William Civil by Bengal (India). Board of Revenue, Bengal (India). Supreme Council (1885)
"If he sleep over his rights, why should he not lose hie remedy as iu other cases
P The ... if the injured party sleep over his rights, he loses his remedy. ..."
4. Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and (1896)
"People will not go to sleep over Richard Strauss "Till Eulenspiegel" for some
years at least. Cesar Franck's symphonic poem, -'Les Bolides" is a work which ..."
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