Stopover

Definition: Stopover

Stopover

Noun

1. A stopping place on a journey; "there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago".

2. A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stopover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Transportation

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Synonyms: Stopover

Crosswords: Stopover

Stopover Forever (1963)

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Books

• Let's Go: The Budget Guide to Ireland 1995/Including the Isle of Man and a London Stopover Section (Let's Go) (reference)

• My Sojourn in Heaven and Stopover in Hell (reference)

• Singapore stopover (reference)

• Stopover (reference)

• Stopover in Kansas (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stopover Tokyo (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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C-141's on the tarmack at Honolulu on the way to New Zealand stopover. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A historical boulder on the beach at Isla Cocos having carvings of names and dates of past visitors to the island. Observed by crew and scientific party of NOAA Ship McARTHUR during stopover while conducting STAR 2000 project. Credit: Small World.

F-117s make Langley stopover before heading to Kuwait.

The former Colonel Smith ranch, now the property of the Resettlement Administration. It is the favorite stopover place for sheep in transit. Central Oregon grazing project. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Bahamas

Average expenditure per stopover per visit increased from $958 in 1999 to $1,088 in 2000, an increase of 14.6 percent. (references)

Bahamas

American visitor arrivals for the period January 2000 to December 2000 dropped slightly from 83 percent of total stopover visitors, to 82 percent. (references)

Jamaica

Jamaica Tourist Board estimated that 6.3 percent of stopover and 3.3 percent of cruise ship passenger's expenditure is spent on food and beverages. (references)

Travel

Ireland

In October 1993, the bilateral Air Transport Agreement between the U.S. and Ireland was amended to effectively end the mandatory transatlantic stopover at Shannon Airport. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

ndalesë (check, halt, pause, rest, stand, standstill, station, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Arabic 

‏توقف في رحلة (stop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

билет даващ право на престой, престой (abidance, continuance, dead time, downtime, idle time, lay over, outage, residence, stay), прекъсване по време на пътуване. (various references)

Chinese 

逗留 (stay at, stopover at). (various references)

Czech

zastávka (halt, station, stop), přerušení cesty. (various references)

Dutch

reisonderbreking. (various references)

Farsi 

توقفگاه بین راه , دروسطراه ایستادن . (various references)

French

halte (stop), escale (stop), arrêt de courte durée, étape (stadium, stage, step, stop). (various references)

German

zwischenstation (intermediate station, intermediate stop, interstation, stop), zwischenlandung (intermediate landing), Unterbrechung (adjournment, break, cut, disconnection, discontinuity, disruption, gap, interception, intermission, intermittence, interrupt, interruption, pause, punctuation, recess, rest, severance, stoppage, time out, timeout, time-out), fahrtunterbrechung (break in the journey). (various references)

Greek 

στάση (attitude, bearing, bus stop, insurgence, insurgency, mutiny, pose, posture, rebellion, revolt, riot, sedition, stance, stand, standing, standstill, stasis, stop). (various references)

Hebrew 

ח� ית בי� ים (stop over). (various references)

Hungarian

útmegszakítás (break in a journey, break of journey). (various references)

Indonesian

persinggahan (port of call, sojourn, stopoff). (various references)

Italian

sosta (break, halt, layover, pause, rest, stop, stoppage, stopping), scalo intermedio, fermata (arrest, call, halt, pause, stand, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"中下車 , 泊まり (anchorage, night duty, stay). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とまり (anchorage, end, night duty, stay, stop, stoppage), とちゅう�'しゃ. (various references)

Pig Latin

opoverstay

Portuguese

escala (gage, gamut, gauge, grade, key, ladder, measure, scale). (various references)

Russian 

остановка в пути. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekid putovanja (lay over, stop over). (various references)

Spanish

parada intermedia (stop off), escala (ladder, scale, stop off). (various references)

Swedish

reseuppehåll. (various references)

Turkish

mola (bait, baiting, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, pause, recess, slack, time out), konaklama (baiting), ara istasyon (way station). (various references)

Ukrainian

транзитний квиток (stop off), зупинка в дорозі (stop off). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stopover": stopovers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stopover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astapovo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overtops.

-1 letter: overtop, poorest, provost, stooper.

-2 letters: pooves, porose, poster, presto, proves, repots, respot, stoper, stover, strove, topers, torose, troops, tropes, troves, voters.

-3 letters: estop, overs, overt, pesto, poets, poove, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, proso, prost, prove, repos, repot, roose, roost, roots, ropes, roset, rotes, rotos, roves, servo, sopor, spoor, spore, sport, stoop, stope.

+1 letter: overplots, stopovers.

+2 letters: vaporettos.

+3 letters: evaporators, overreports, postdivorce.

+4 letters: cooperatives, evaporations, overexploits, overoperates, overoptimism, overoptimist, overpromotes, overprotects, provocateurs, provocatives, seropositive.

+5 letters: flavoproteins, improvisatore, nonabsorptive, overoptimisms, overoptimists, overpopulates, photoengraves, photogravures, postoperative, promotiveness, supervirtuoso, velociraptors.