STOP OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stop over mean? 

• STOP OVER (verb)
  The verb STOP OVER has 2 senses:

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

2. interrupt a trip

  Familiarity information: STOP OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOP OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

lay over; stop over

Context example:

We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil

Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):

stop; stop over (interrupt a trip)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

stopover (a brief stay in the course of a journey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Interrupt a trip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

stop; stop over

Context example:

they stopped for three days in Florence

Hypernyms (to "stop over" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stop over"):

call (make a stop in a harbour)

lay over; stop over (interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

In our journey towards Lagado, the capital city, his majesty ordered that the island should stop over certain towns and villages, from whence he might receive the petitions of his subjects.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)