sleepover
noun
sleep·over
ˈslēp-ˌō-vər 
1
: an overnight stay (as at another's home)
2
: an instance of hosting a sleepover in one's home
Examples of sleepover in a Sentence
Our daughter is having a sleepover for her friends tomorrow.
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Unlike the demands of the professional kitchen, time is suspended and Sydney has the time to contemplate her choices through the simplicity of a child-like metaphor: choosing which house to go to for a sleepover.
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Banseka Kayembe, Refinery29, 18 July 2025
Escandalo! Steven, who graduated from Princeton and is working a finance job for Adam Fisher (Tom Everett Scott), clearly wants something serious, but Taylor enforces all kinds of rules, including no drama, no feelings, and no sleepovers.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 16 July 2025
There’s the tender way Sydney and TJ guide each other, first through a recipe, and then through upcoming big decisions (whether to attend a sleepover for one, whether to change jobs for the other).
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
Kubica’s new story is inspired by a true crime investigation in the 1980’s known as the Keddie Cabin murders, in which three people of the Sharp family were found dead in a cabin in northern California by a family member who had gone to a sleepover that night.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 7 July 2025
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Banseka Kayembe, Refinery29, 18 July 2025
Escandalo! Steven, who graduated from Princeton and is working a finance job for Adam Fisher (Tom Everett Scott), clearly wants something serious, but Taylor enforces all kinds of rules, including no drama, no feelings, and no sleepovers.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 16 July 2025
There’s the tender way Sydney and TJ guide each other, first through a recipe, and then through upcoming big decisions (whether to attend a sleepover for one, whether to change jobs for the other).
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
Kubica’s new story is inspired by a true crime investigation in the 1980’s known as the Keddie Cabin murders, in which three people of the Sharp family were found dead in a cabin in northern California by a family member who had gone to a sleepover that night.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 7 July 2025
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“Sleepover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleepover. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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sleepover
noun
sleep·over
ˈslēp-ō-vər
: an overnight stay at another's home or an instance of having others stay at one's own home
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