over
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
botany
card-games
cricket
entertainment
gambling
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
military
music
natural-sciences
poker
politics
professional-wrestling
sciences
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Proto-West Germanic *obar
Old English ofer
Middle English over
English over
From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, ofor, ouer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ower (“over”), Yola oer, ower, owr (“over”), Saterland Frisian uur (“over”), West Frisian oer (“over, across”), Cimbrian übar (“over”), Dutch over (“over”), German ober, über, ueber (“over, above”), Limburgish euver, övver (“over”), Low German över, üöver (“over”), Luxembourgish iwwer (“over”), Mòcheno iber (“over”), Yiddish איבער (iber, “over”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål over (“over”), Elfdalian yvyr (“over”), Faroese yvir (“over”), Icelandic yfir (“over”), Norwegian Nynorsk over, yver, yvi (“over”), Swedish över (“over”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar, “over”); also Breton and Cornish war (“on, over”), Irish ar (“on”), Manx er (“on”), Scottish Gaelic air (“on, upon”), Latin super (“above, over”), Ancient Greek ῠ̔πείρ (hŭpeír), ὑπέρ (hupér), ῠ̔́περ (hŭ́per, “above, over”), Albanian epër (“above, high, overhead, up, upward”), Armenian վեր (ver, “up”), Avestan 𐬎𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (upaⁱri, “above, over”), Persian بر (bar, “on; onto; upon”), Sanskrit उपरि (upari, “above, over”).
Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.
Inflected forms:
form: o'er
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ower
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: ouer
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ovuh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: o'er
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ower
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: ouer
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ovuh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: overs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: o'er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: ouer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ovuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: o'er
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: ower
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: ouer
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: ovuh
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Finished; ended; concluded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The show isn't over until the fat lady sings.
The strawberries are over now. I picked the last few yesterday.
gloss: Finished; ended; concluded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hopeless; irrecoverable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: We're keeping our marriage going for the sake of the kids, but really it's over.
gloss: Visiting one's home or other location.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: My sister's over for the week.
gloss: Having surmounted an obstacle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The horse struggled at that fence, but it's over.
gloss: Having an excess in a particular respect.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: This steak is well over. (overcooked)
We had some complaints about short weight, so now we make sure that all our bags of potatoes are a bit over. (overweight)
gloss: Surplus to requirements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I made 20 cakes, but I only need 18, so there are two over.
gloss: Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: That vase isn't exactly central. Could you move it over a couple of inches?
I slid over to make room for him to sit down.
Please pass the chocolates over to me.
"Come over to my house and play!" — "Sure, I'll bring over a pizza."
He's driven over from Bristol.
In the future, when space travel is affordable to everyone, we'll be able to pop over to the Moon for a weekend.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I need to cross the river. Can you take me over in your boat?
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I looked up just as a helicopter flew over.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fence is too high. I don't think I'll be able to get over.
The boiling milk bubbled over onto the cooker top.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The car rolled to the edge of the cliff and went straight over.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
That building just fell over!
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bend the end of that wire over to make a hook.
He bent over to touch his toes.
The leaves have curled over.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Paint it over with a darker colour.
It's starting to cloud over.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Put the card face down, and don't turn it over until I say so.
I can't sleep on my back. I have to roll over onto my side.
gloss: Describing a physical change of position or state.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Swap those cables over. The red one should be in the left socket.
gloss: Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
I switched over to Channel 9.
I signed the property over to him.
This advertisement doesn't clearly get the idea over.
gloss: Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'll see you over at the club.
Look over there!
gloss: Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
gloss: To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
pos: adv
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
often
examples: I'm not over bothered about going to the party.
If you're over tentative then you'll get nowhere.
She seemed a placid creature altogether - eminently respectable - perhaps not over intelligent.
gloss: Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The show ran ten minutes over.
We tried to stick to budget, but in the end we went twenty dollars over.
gloss: To a future time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Carry the shortfall over and we'll make it up tomorrow.
gloss: Overnight (throughout the night).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We missed the last bus home so we stayed over.
Can I sleep over?
gloss: Indicating repetition.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
usually
examples: I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.
gloss: Indicating repetition.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I said the magic word three times over, and the secret door slid open.
gloss: See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A set of six legal balls bowled.
pos: noun
examples: Jones hit four boundaries in the first over.
In an emotional and electric atmosphere at Lord's, both sides scored 241 in their 50 overs and were level on 15 when they batted for an extra over apiece.
gloss: Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
pos: noun
examples: […] standard cash count forms used to record the count and any overs or unders.
gloss: Something having an excess of a particular property.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I went fishing but caught mostly overs.
In today's golf tournament we recorded three unders and twenty overs.
gloss: A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
pos: noun
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: Hold the sign up over your head.
The mountain towered over the village.
Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: The guide took us over the border.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: The vulture flew over the desert.
I looked out over the sea.
If I saw the wild geese fly over the dark lakes of Kerry...
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: The estate agent showed me over the property.
We went over the cathedral and then had lunch in the cafe.
(figuratively) We went over the figures together.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: He lives over the road from me.
The next town is over that hill.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
tags: informal
examples: There was a big fire over the other side of town.
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: The dog jumped over the fence.
Let's walk over the hill to get there.
The lava bubbled up and over the rim of the crater.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: The car drove straight over the edge of the cliff.
I tripped over a tree root.
gloss: Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
pos: prep
examples: Drape the fabric over the table.
There is a roof over the house.
(figuratively) A strange feeling came over me.
gloss: Expressing comparison.
pos: prep
examples: He is over a hundred years old.
It's over a hundred degrees outside.
I think I’m over my limit for calories for today.
gloss: Expressing comparison.
pos: prep
examples: I prefer the purple over the pink.
gloss: Expressing comparison.
pos: prep
examples: Sales are down this quarter over last.
gloss: During or throughout (a time period).
pos: prep
examples: He's got grumpier over the years.
I'll have to work over the weekend.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
gloss: Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
pos: prep
examples: A stern voice boomed over the loudspeaker.
The message came over FM radio.
gloss: Indicating relative status, authority, or power
pos: prep
examples: The owner's son lorded it over the experienced managers.
The prince ruled over a portion of the kingdom.
gloss: In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished 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.
pos: prep
examples: 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.
gloss: While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
pos: prep
examples: We had a chat over dinner.
He fell asleep over the crossword puzle.
Six diners in business clothes—five attractive young women and a balding middle-aged man—relax over cigarettes.
Sunday had been my favorite day at Woodlawn. A long W.A.A. [="work as assigned" period], having coffee and croissants with Mark over the Sunday Times.
Over meatloaf and mashed potatoes (being careful not to talk with his mouth full), Stanley told about his adventure.
gloss: Concerning or regarding.
pos: prep
examples: The two boys had a fight over whose girlfriend was the best.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
pos: prep
examples: We triumphed over difficulties.
The bill was passed over the veto.
It was a fine victory over their opponents.
I can't hear you over the noise of that road drill.
gloss: Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
pos: prep
examples: He was fired over that.
Microsoft CEO should be fired over cyber failure
gloss: Divided by.
pos: prep
examples: Two over six equals one over three.
gloss: Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
pos: prep
examples: 9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes
gloss: Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
pos: prep
Derived words: game over
overness
absent over leave
algebra over a field
algebra over a ring
all-over
all over again
all over bar the shouting
all over but the crying
all over but the shouting
all over hell's half acre
all over one like a cheap suit
all over oneself
all-over painting
all over someone like a rash
all over the ballpark
all over the board
all over the gaff
all over the lot
all over the map
all over the place
all over the place like a mad woman's custard
all over the shop
all over the show
all over with
arcover
arc-over
arse over tip
arse over tit
ask over
ass over elbows
ass over teacups
ass over teakettle
a watched pot never boils over
backover
base over apex
bend over
bend over backward
bend over backwards
bind over
black over Bill's mother's
blow me over
blow over
boil over
bowl over
brim over
bring over
bubble over
build a bridge and get over it
burned-over district
burnover
buy over
cabover
call over
cap over the windmill
carry over
change over
change-over
check over
chew over
cloud over
coilover
comb over
combover
comb-over
come on over
come over
come-over
come Yorkshire over
composition over inheritance
crawl over each other
cross-over
cross over
crow over
crying over spilt milk
cry over spilt milk
cutover
day-over-day
death warmed over
don't cry over spilled milk
do over
do-over
dote over
double over
draw a sponge over the slate
draw a veil over
fail over
fall over
fall over oneself
fall over one's feet
fawn over
feels over reals
flash over
flick over
flip over
flopover
fly-over
flyover
fold-over
foldover
forge over
fork over
freeze over
frontover
fucked over
fuck over
fuss over
game-over
get one over on
get one's leg over
get over
get over on
get over oneself
get over the line
get something over with
gill-over-the-ground
give over
glance over
glaze over
gloss over
go gaga over
going over
going-over
gold over
go over
go over as well as a lead balloon
go over like a lead balloon
go over like a lead zeppelin
go over someone's head
go over to the majority
Grange-over-Sands
half seas over
hand-over
handover
hand over
hand over fist
hand over hand
hand over head
hangover
hang over
hang over someone's head
hat over the windmill
haul someone over the coals
have one's name written all over
have over
have something over with
haze over
headless over heels
head over ears
head over heels
heal over
heel over
heels over head
help a lame dog over a stile
hold over
holdover
hold over one's head
hold over someone's head
hunch over
hung-over
hung over
I can't hear you over the sound of
iced-over
ice over
it ain't over till it's over
it ain't over till the fat lady sings
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
it ain't over until the fat lady sings
it isn't over till the fat lady sings
it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings
it isn't over until the fat lady sings
Joever
keel over
kickover
kick over the traces
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
knock over
knock someone over with a feather
Lancashire over the sands
Lancashire over the water
land up over
lateover
lay over
layover
lean over backwards
leave over
left-over
leftover
leg-over
lie-over
lie over
liftover
like death warmed over
live over the brush
look over
look over one's shoulder
lord it over
lord over
lunatics have taken over the asylum
maiden over
make-over
make over
marry over the broomstick
mind over matter
mist over
moreover
mouse-over
mouseover
mouse over
move over
mull over
non-over-the-counter
not look a day over
once-over
once over
once-over-lightly
one over the eight
out over one's skis
over 9000
over a barrel
overachieve
over again
over against
overage
overall
overalls
over and above
over and done
over and done with
over and over
over and over again
over and under
over-anxious
overarm
overboard
over bridge
over-burning
overcast
over celebrate
over celebrated
overcoat
over-compensate
over-dressed
over easy
overfamiliar
over hard
overhead
over head and ears
over-heat
over here
over hill and dale
over-industrious
overish
over joyous
Over Kellet
over-kingdom
overland
overleaf
overlength
over light
overling
overloading
overly
over medium
overmore
overmost
over my dead body
over night
over nine thousand
over one's head
over one's skis
over open sights
over rate
overreach
overrobe
overscaling
oversea
overshoot
overshot
overside
oversman
oversocks
over square
overstand
Over Staveley
over-stimulation
Over Stowey
over the bender
over the board
over the counter
over the edge
over the fence
over the head
over the hill
over the hills and far away
over the hump
over the left
over the left shoulder
over the line
over the moon
over the odds
over the rainbow
over there
over the river
over the river and through the woods
over the top
over the transom
over the way
over the wicket
over-time
over time
over to
overturn
over-value
Over Wallop
over well
over with
papering over
paper over
paper over the cracks
pass a sponge over the slate
pass over
pick over
piss all over
playover
popover
pore over
pour-over
pour-over will
pull one over
pull over
pullover
pull someone over the coals
pull the wool over somebody's eyes
pull the wool over someone's eyes
push over
put a blanket over
put one over
put over
rake over
rake over old coals
rake over the coals
rame over
read over
rise over run
rockover
roll-over
roll over
roll over in one's grave
roof over one's head
run over
run roughshod over
run the rule over
scoot over
screw over
set over
shake over
ship over
shove over
sign over
Simple Simon over
skate over
skinned over
sleep over
sleepover
slipover
slur over
smooth over
somewhere over the rainbow
sparkover
spillover
spill over
stand over
start over
stay over
stayover
stepover
step over
stop over
stop-over
strikeover
super over
swap over
swing over
switchover
take-over
take over
talk over
talk over someone's head
the party is over
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
thereover
there's no point crying over spilt milk
there's no use crying over spilt milk
the world over
think over
throw one's cap over the windmill
throw one's hat over the fence
throw one's hat over the wall
throw one's hat over the windmill
throw over
thumb-over
ticking-over
tick over
tide over
tie over
time over
tip over
topple over
tower over
trip over
trip over one's own two feet
turn over
turn over a new leaf
turn over in one's grave
two bald men fighting over a comb
typeover
under and over
under over
until hell freezes over
until the cows freeze over
up and over door
up-over
value over replacement player
voice-over
voice over broadband
voice over IP
Voice over NR
wake-over
walk all over
walk-over
walk over
warmed-over
warm over
wash over
washover
watch over
water over the dam
when heck freezes over
when Hell freezes over
when hell freezes over
whereover
wingover
win over
winterover
winter-over syndrome
work over
workover
wrapover
written all over it
written all over someone's face
yarnover
yarn over
yarn-over
year-over-year
all over
ride roughshod over
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ավարտված
roman: avartvac
lang: Bulgarian
word: завършен
roman: zavǎršen
lang: Cantonese
word: 結束 /结束
roman: git³ cuk¹
lang: Cantonese
word: 終止 /终止
roman: zung¹ zi²
lang: Cantonese
word: 冇嗮
roman: mou⁵ saai³
lang: Cantonese
word: 收
roman: sau¹
lang: Cantonese
word: 了斷 /了断
roman: liǎoduàn
lang: Cantonese
word: 結束 /结束
roman: jiéshù
lang: Cantonese
word: 終止 /终止
roman: zhōngzhǐ
lang: Danish
word: forbi
lang: Dutch
word: voorbij
lang: Esperanto
word: finita
lang: Faroese
word: liðugur
lang: Finnish
word: lopussa
lang: Finnish
word: ohi
lang: French
word: fini
lang: French
word: terminé
lang: Galician
word: rematado
lang: German
word: vorbei
lang: Hungarian
word: vége
lang: Icelandic
word: búinn
lang: Irish
word: ós cionn
lang: Irish
word: thart
lang: Italian
word: terminato
lang: Italian
word: finito
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: tèitsǜtèi
lang: Norwegian
word: over
lang: Norwegian
word: slutt
lang: Old English
word: ġeendod
lang: Polish
word: skończony
lang: Polish
word: ukończony
lang: Portuguese
word: terminado
lang: Portuguese
word: acabado
lang: Portuguese
word: concluído
lang: Russian
word: око́нченный
roman: okónčennyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: seachad
lang: Slovene
word: končan
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: mimo
lang: Spanish
word: terminado
lang: Spanish
word: acabado
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: kaba
lang: Swedish
word: över
lang: Swedish
word: slut
lang: Swedish
word: förbi
lang: Turkish
word: bitti
lang: Ukrainian
word: закі́нчений
roman: zakínčenyj
lang: Zazaki
word: qediya
lang: Arabic
word: عَبْرَ
roman: ʕabra
lang: Armenian
word: վրայով
roman: vrayov
lang: Belarusian
word: праз
roman: praz
lang: Bulgarian
word: през
roman: prez
lang: Czech
word: přes
lang: Finnish
word: yli
lang: Finnish
word: aikana
lang: French
word: au-delà
lang: Hungarian
word: át
lang: Hungarian
word: keresztül
lang: Italian
word: al di là
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئەو بەر
roman: ew ber
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئەولا
roman: ewla
lang: Polish
word: przez
lang: Portuguese
word: sobre
lang: Russian
word: че́рез
roman: čérez
lang: Sicilian
word: di ḍḍà banna
lang: Slovene
word: čez
lang: Spanish
word: sobre
lang: Ukrainian
word: че́рез
roman: čérez
lang: Welsh
word: dros
lang: Yiddish
word: איבער
roman: iber
lang: Finnish
word: suhteessa
lang: Hungarian
word: -nál
lang: Hungarian
word: -nél
lang: Hungarian
word: képest
lang: Hungarian
word: mint