stopover
noun
stop·over
ˈstäp-ˌō-vər 
1
: a stop at an intermediate point in one's journey
2
: a stopping place on a journey
Examples of stopover in a Sentence
The city is a favorite stopover for tourists.
I've been to Belgium—if you count a stopover in Brussels on my way to Istanbul.
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Flight 103, a Boeing 747, was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to Detroit with stopovers in London and New York.
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Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025
The City Sights Tour, meanwhile, is offered three times a day (12 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7 p.m.) and includes 30-minute stopovers at Merlion Park (home of the Lion City’s famed fish-lion fountain) and Gardens by the Bay, with its Avatar-esque Supertrees.
—Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
The latest development across the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait came after Lai Ching-te, president of Taiwan, recently toured allies in the South Pacific Ocean, which included stopovers in Hawaii and Guam, the Pacific Ocean territority of the United States.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Lai also had a phone call with US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson during his stopover on the US territory, which houses some of the most strategically important American bases in the Pacific.
—Wayne Chang, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025
The City Sights Tour, meanwhile, is offered three times a day (12 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7 p.m.) and includes 30-minute stopovers at Merlion Park (home of the Lion City’s famed fish-lion fountain) and Gardens by the Bay, with its Avatar-esque Supertrees.
—Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
The latest development across the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait came after Lai Ching-te, president of Taiwan, recently toured allies in the South Pacific Ocean, which included stopovers in Hawaii and Guam, the Pacific Ocean territority of the United States.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Lai also had a phone call with US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson during his stopover on the US territory, which houses some of the most strategically important American bases in the Pacific.
—Wayne Chang, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Stopover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stopover. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
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stopover
noun
stop·over
-ˌō-vər
1
: a stop in the course of one's journey
2
: a stopping place on a journey
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