over
Meanings
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- Visiting one's home or other location.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Having an excess in a particular respect.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- Describing a physical change of position or state.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- So as to pass above.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- A set of six legal balls bowled.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- Something having an excess of a particular property.
- A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or around all the parts of.
- On the other side of.
- At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- Expressing comparison.
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.
- Instructs the reader to turn the page and continue reading the other side.
- Ellipsis of over the left shoulder (“expressing disbelief etc.”).
- To go over, or jump over.
- To run about.
- A shore, riverbank.
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3770).
- A suburban area in Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6366).
- A hamlet in Almondsbury parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5882)
- A hamlet near Gloucester in Highnam parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8119).
- A village in Seevetal, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Pronunciation
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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.