Finished; ended; concluded.
The show isn't over until the fat lady sings.
Hopeless; irrecoverable.
We're keeping our marriage going for the sake of the kids, but really it's over.
Visiting one's home or other location.
My sister's over for the week.
Describing a physical change of position or state.
That vase isn't exactly central. Could you move it over a couple of inches?
Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
A set of six legal balls bowled.
Jones hit four boundaries in the first over.
Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
[…] standard cash count forms used to record the count and any overs or unders.
Expressing spatial relationship or movement.
Hold the sign up over your head.
Expressing comparison.
He is over a hundred years old.
During or throughout (a time period).
A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.
Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over.
Instructs the reader to turn the page and continue reading the other side.
Ellipsis of over the left shoulder (“expressing disbelief etc.”).
To go over, or jump over.
He overed the fence in good style.
To run about.
The cattle have been overing all day because of the flies.
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3770).
A suburban area in Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6366).
A hamlet in Almondsbury parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5882
From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, related to *upó. Akin to Scots ower (“over”), Yola ...
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Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
I'll see you over at the club.
A shore, riverbank.
The sea's over.
He's got grumpier over the years.