over

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Finished; ended.

   The meeting was over by five o'clock.

2. 2
   adv

   To or at a place across some space; from one place to another.

   Come over and see us some time.

3. 3
   adv

   Across the whole of an area or surface.

   The walls were painted blue all over.

Common collocations

• all over Adverb + adjective
• boil over Verb + adverb
• brim over Verb + adverb
• cloud over Verb + adverb
• flip over Verb + adverb
• glaze over Verb + adverb
• grow over Verb + preposition/particle
• hand over Verb + adverb
• haze over Verb + adverb
• hunch over Verb + adverb
• keel over Verb + adverb
• knock over Verb + adverb

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”), Limburgis…

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