Definitions for stopover

stopover stop·o·ver

Spelling: [stop-oh-ver]
IPA: /ˈstɒpˌoʊ vər/

Stopover is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 305 anagrams from letters in stopover (eooprstv).

Definitions for stopover

noun

  1. a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
  2. such a stop made with the privilege of proceeding later on the ticket originally issued.

Origin of stopover

First recorded in 1860-65; noun use of verb phrase stop over

Examples for stopover

They mean to swim to the island opposite without any stopover, and are watched by an admiring crowd of youngsters.

Obama hugged Giannoulias at the president's stopover in Quincy, Illinois Wednesday.

What was once just a stopover point quickly became a destination in its own right.

Benefits resulting from the stopover in the Indies were countered by the considerable exposure to tropical infections.

The cluster of 770 islands lying 300 miles off South America once served as a stopover for whale and seal hunters.

Almost all towns have stopover books nowadays, and a good thing, too.

Does your holiday travel include a stopover at an airport from hell?

We are bound for San Francisco, with a stopover at Nagasaki.

After a stopover in Paris—she briefly worked as a subway busker, singing in Arabic for tips—Grout returned to Morocco.

She had learned that the tickets permitted a stopover in Vienna.

Word Value for stopover
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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