over

See also: Over, över, Över, øver, over-, and över-

over - English

Alternative forms

  • o'er (adverb, preposition)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: ō'vər, IPA: /ˈoʊ.vɚ/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ver

Adjective

over (not comparable)

  1. Discontinued; ended or concluded.
    • The show is over.
  2. (professional wrestling slang) wrestler or faction that is popular with the audience.

Usage notes

Not normally used attributively (before a noun). (Attributive use occurs rarely in informal language, e.g. "an over relationship".)

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

over (not comparable)

  1. Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
    • Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting.
    • Let me think that over.
    • I'm going to look over our department's expenses.
  2. (often in compounds) To an excessive degree; overly.
  3. From an upright position to a horizontal one.
    • He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
    • That building just fell over!
    • He bent over to touch his toes.
  4. Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
    • Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other.
    • I moved over to make room for him to sit down.
  5. From one side of something to another, passing above it.
    • The fence is too high. I don't think I'll be able to get over.
  6. From one position or state to another.
    • Please pass that over to me.
    • He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
    • Come over and play!
    • I'll bring over a pizza.
  7. Overnight (throughout the night).
    • We stayed over at Grandma's.
    • Can I sleep over?
  8. (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
    • I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Finnish: yötä
  • Hungarian: éjszakára
  • Polish: przez noc
  • Russian: на ночь (na noch')
  • Swedish: över (sv)

Noun

over (plural overs)

  1. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
  2. Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.

Translations

Preposition

over

  1. Expressing spatial relationship.
    1. On top of; above; higher than; further up.
      • Hold the sign up over your head.
    2. Across or spanning.
      • There is a bridge over the river.
      • I looked out over the sea.
    3. In such a way as to cover.
      • Drape the fabric over the table.
      • There is a roof over the house.
    4. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
      • The dog jumped over the fence.
      • I'll go over [the fence] first and then help you.
      • Let's walk over the hill to get there.
  2. Expressing comparison.
    1. More than; to a greater degree.
      • I prefer the purple over the pink.
    2. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
      • I think I’m over my limit for calories for today.
    3. (in certain collocations) As compared to.
      • Sales are down this quarter over last.
  3. Indicating relative status, authority, or power
    • The owner's son lorded it over the experienced managers.
    • The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom.
  4. (mathematics) Divided by.
    • Two over six equals one over three.
  5. (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
    • 9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes
  6. Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
    • We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great.
    • I am over my cold and feel great again.
    • I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it [your annoyance with the referee's decision].
    • She is finally over [the distress of] losing her job.
    • He is finally over his [distress over the loss of the relationship with his] ex-girlfriend.
  7. While using, especially while consuming.
  8. Concerning or regarding.
    • The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best.
  9. Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
    • We triumphed over difficulties.
    • The bill was passed over the veto.
    • It was a fine victory over their opponents.

Usage notes

When used in the context of "from one location to another", over implies that the two places are at approximately the same height or the height difference is not relevant. For example, if two offices are on the same floor of a building, an office worker might say I'll bring that over for you, while if the offices were on different floors, the sentence would likely be I'll bring that up [down] for you. However, distances are not constrained, e.g. He came over from England last year and now lives in Los Angeles or I moved the stapler over to the other side of my desk.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Bulgarian: през (bg) (prez)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: yli (fi), ylitse (fi)
  • Hungarian: át (hu), keresztül (hu)
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: örwer (nds) (Vest Recklinghausen), öwer (nds) (Vest Recklinghausen)
  • Swedish: över (sv)

Interjection

over

  1. (procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.
    • Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over.
    • Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over.
    • How do you receive? Over!
  2. (obsolete, slang) Short for over the left shoulder (expressing disbelief etc.).

Coordinate terms

  • (radio procedure word): out

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

over (third-person singular simple present overs, present participle overing, simple past and past participle overed)

  1. (UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.
    • He overed the fence in good style.
  2. (UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.
    • The cattle have been overing all day because of the flies.

Noun

over (plural overs)

  1. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.
    • The sea's over.

Usage notes

Now mostly found in place names, as in Westover or Overton, Hampshire (a town built on the River Test). Fell out of use in the 16th century.


Anagrams

over - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ou1 faa4

Adjective

over

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) over the top; extreme; overdone

Verb

over

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to go too far

over - Danish

Preposition

over

  1. above
    • Skyer hænger over byen.
      • Clouds hang above the city.
  2. past an hour
    • Klokken er fjorten minutter over sytten.
      • It's fourteen minutes past five p.m.

Adverb

over

  1. across
    • Han kom over grænsen.
      • He got across the border.
  2. asunder; in two
    • Vil du skære bollen over?Would you cut the bun in two?

Noun

over c (singular definite overen, plural indefinite overe)

  1. (informal) The upper curved portion of a roll or a similar food.
    • Jeg foretrækker overen.
      • I prefer the top slice.

Inflection

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative over overen overe overne
genitive overs overens overes overnes

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • overkrydder

Noun

over c (singular definite overen, plural indefinite overe or overs)

  1. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled, an over.

Inflection

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative over overen overe overs overne
genitive overs overens overes overs' overnes

over - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈoː.vər/
  • Hyphenation: over

Adverb

over

  1. over, above
  2. (postpositional) over (implying motion)
    • Kijk uit, er steekt een hond de straat over.
      • Look out, a dog is crossing over the street.
  3. remaining, left over
    • Na het feest was er bijna geen eten meer over.
      • After the party there was barely any food remaining.
  4. passing by, going away
    • De pijn gaat weer over.
      • The pain is going away again.
  5. Denotes an imitative action, again, once again
    • Ik schrijf je brief over.
      • I will transcribe your letter.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: oper

Preposition

over

  1. over
  2. about, concerning

Inflection

preposition over
postpositional adv. over
het (it) erover
dit (this) hierover
dat (that) daarover
wat (what) waarover
iets (something) ergens over
niets (nothing) nergens over
alles (everything) overal over

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: oor
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: ofru
  • Javindo: ofer
  • Jersey Dutch: ôver
  • Negerhollands: over, aobu, obu, ovoor
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: over, ofer
  • Caribbean Javanese: oper, ngoper
  • Papiamentu: ofer, over

Anagrams

over - Latin

Verb

over

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ovō

over - Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɔːvər/

Preposition

ōver

  1. over, above
  2. across
  3. towards
  4. during
  5. ago, some duration in the past
  6. after, following (a duration)
  7. about, concerning
  8. due to, because of

Descendants

Adverb

ōver

  1. over
  2. across, on the other side
  3. plenty, more than enough
  4. used up, finished
  5. once again

Descendants

over - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɔːvər/, /ˈɔvər/

Preposition

over

  1. above

Descendants

over - Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • Stem vowel: ō² or ȫ¹ or ȫ²
    • (originally) IPA: /ʊɒvər/, /ʏəvər/, /ʏœvər/

Preposition

ōver or ȫver

  1. (accusative) across, moving through or over something
    • over dat rode mêr - across the Red Sea
  2. (accusative) across, moving to the other side of something
  3. (accusative) in, across, describing the spread of something
    • over alle lant - all across the lands / in every land
  4. (dative) across, situated on the other side of
    • over deme watere - across the water
  5. (dative) while, over the duration of
    • over deme werke begripen - while working on something
  6. (dative) over, at, on, on top of, describing where something is situated; does not mean above
    • over deme dische - at the table

Usage notes

It is not clear whether the umlaut was connected with semantic differences.

Alternative forms

Antonyms

Adverb

ōver or ȫver

  1. across, on the other side
  2. while
  3. on top of, additionally
  4. over (finished, ceased)

Usage notes

It is not clear whether the umlaut was connected with semantic differences.

Alternative forms

Antonyms

over - Norwegian Bokmål

Preposition

over

  1. above
  2. past
  3. over; more than

Adverb

over

  1. over
  2. across

Derived terms

over - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈoːʋɛr/, /ˈoːʋər/

Preposition

over

  1. above
  2. past
  3. over; more than

Adverb

over

  1. over
  2. across

Derived terms

over - Zazaki

Pronoun

over

  1. opposite
Meaning and Definition of over
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