Definition of "over"

Discontinued; ended or concluded.  examples

(professional wrestling slang) wrestler or faction that is popular with the audience.

Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.  quotations  examples

(often in compounds) To an excessive degree; overly.  quotations  examples

From an upright position to a horizontal one.  examples

Horizontally; left to right or right to left.  examples

From one side of something to another, passing above it.  examples

From one position or state to another.  examples

Overnight (throughout the night).  examples

(US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.  examples

(cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.  quotations  examples

Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.  quotations  examples

Expressing spatial relationship.

1. On top of; above; higher than; further up.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning.

     1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields

   • 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.

     2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist

2. Across or spanning.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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.

     1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

   • If I saw the wild geese fly over the dark lakes of Kerry...

     1918, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Sick I Am and Sorrowful

   • 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.

     2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3

3. In such a way as to cover.  examples

4. From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.  examples

Expressing comparison.

1. More than; to a greater degree.  examples

2. Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.  examples

3. (in certain collocations) As compared to.  examples

Indicating relative status, authority, or power  examples

(mathematics) Divided by.  examples

(poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.  examples

Finished with; done 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.  examples

While using, especially while consuming.  quotations  examples

Concerning or regarding.  quotations  examples

Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.  examples

(procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.

(obsolete, slang) Short for over the left shoulder (“expressing disbelief etc.”).

(UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.

(UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.

(rare, dialectal or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.  quotations