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Stopover

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An interruption in the course of a journey for stopping or visiting at a certain place.

n. A place visited briefly in the course of a journey.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption.

n. Alternative spelling of stop-over.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Permitting one to stop over. See To stop over, under stop, v. i.

n. the act or privilege of stopping over; stopping at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; the temporary interruption of one's journey.

n. a brief visit.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

See to stop off or over, under stop, intransitive verb

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. interrupt a trip

v. interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight

n. a stopping place on a journey

n. a brief stay in the course of a journey

Word Usage

"New Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman didn't snip his career-long Detroit ties for a short-term stopover, and new Lightning coach Guy Boucher -- who worked with BriseBois with the Bulldogs last season -- isn't going to step into his first NHL coaching job with anything but unbridled commitment."

Equivalent

stop-over

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

stop

Variant