stop over meaning and examples

Meaning

• Stop over means to make a short stay at a place while traveling to another destination.
• It is often used when someone pauses their journey, especially during air travel, before continuing to their final destination.

Grammar and Usage

• Part of speech: phrasal verb

• Structure:

  • stop over (in/at + place) → to stay for a short time in a city or country on the way to somewhere else.

• Usually used in travel-related contexts.

• Intransitive verb: does not take a direct object.

Examples of structure:

• "We stopped over in Dubai on our way to Europe."
• "They decided to stop over at a friend’s place before heading home."

Common Phrases

• stop over in Paris
• stop over at a hotel
• overnight stopover
• short stopover

Collocations

• verb + stop over → decide to stop over, plan to stop over
• noun + stopover → overnight stopover, brief stopover, unexpected stopover
• place + stopover → London stopover, airport stopover

Examples

1. We stopped over in Singapore for two nights before flying to Australia.
2. Our flight stops over in Frankfurt, so we’ll have a few hours to explore the city.
3. They stopped over at a small village to rest during their road trip.
4. She had an overnight stopover in Tokyo before her connecting flight.
5. We decided to stop over at a beach resort on our way back home.
6. His business trip included a short stopover in Hong Kong.
7. Many tourists stop over in Dubai because it’s a major flight hub.

Synonyms or Related

• layover
• break journey
• pause
• rest stop

Antonym

• travel directly
• non-stop flight
• go straight through