MEANING
A place or interval where a journey is temporarily interrupted before continuing.
Use it for
Temporary lodging; passing encounters; travel itinerariesMake the location important precisely because the stay is brief.
Words that belong together
- overnight stopover
- brief stopover
- stopover city
On the page
The town was a convenient stopover, not the destination they had saved for.
An overnight stopover gave her time to find the street where her mother had lived.
As a stopover city, it welcomed thousands of visitors who never learned its history.
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Word forms
- Base
- stopover
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Can name the visit, its duration, or the location. A stopover is usually a planned travel stage, whereas a destination ends that part of the journey. Plural: stopovers. No other inflection applies to this noun.
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