Talk:over

over
rfd-sense:

2. (as a prefix): To excess.
 * He is over-zealous.
 * The latest policy was over-conservative.

This is a prefix, not an adjective. The proper place for this sense is at over- (where, of course, it already exists). —Caesura(t) 21:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete according to those usexes. If it's used without the hyphen then it could be a different matter. Equinox ◑ 23:49, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete But do we really think that words are really formed from a prefix over- rather than by combination of over:. DCDuring TALK 01:30, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is a prefix. over zealous seems like it is only used informally since informal English seems to hate hyphens. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 08:30, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 07:54, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Missing sense
I suppose... something like yonder: We have lunch over at the café. Isn't that a common use? (Or have I made it up in my mind?) Kolmiel (talk) 23:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I notice something similar missing: "over" in the sense of "over here" and "over there". DEIDATVM (talk) 15:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any real reference on this page anymore to the use as a separate word of over to mean excessively or very much, such as: Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? This is listed on a separate page but many times is spelled as two words like this. Eric Schiefelbein (talk) 23:04, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

RFC discussion: May 2017–May 2018

 * See Talk:minus.

See over
See over means look on the next page --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:47, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

adverb: ‘to someone’s house’
Over as an adverb can mean ‘to someone’s house’: Would you like to come over and have dinner one evening? (to the speaker’s house) --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:22, 31 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Oddly enough I was thinking about this yesterday, when I saw that our entry here has a sense "overnight (throughout the night)", used to explain "We stayed over at Grandma's" and "Can I sleep over?". That may be correct but I had always assumed that "stay/sleep over" was in the sense "over at your place"/"over there". Equinox ◑ 22:20, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

The next house over.
What's its meaning in She lived in the next house over ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:42, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Be gone over (‘ore’/‘o’er’) the place
In the song Bold Doherty, a lyric is ‘“be gone ore the place” were the words that she mentioned’ - perhaps we should have an entry here to reflect that meaning of over/o’er/ore? —-Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:25, 23 April 2023 (UTC)