The meaning of OVER is across a barrier or intervening space; specifically : across the goal line in football. How to use over in a sentence.

We use over as a preposition and an adverb to refer to something at a higher position than something else, sometimes involving movement from one side to another: …

In a position to rule or control: The director presides over the meeting.

If someone or something goes over a barrier, obstacle, or boundary, they get to the other side of it by going across it, or across the top of it. I stepped over a broken piece of wood. Nearly one million …

1 day ago · over (third-person singular simple present overs, present participle overing, simple past and past participle overed) (UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.

If something is over it is finished, across, or above. When a movie is over, you get up and leave. A blanket that's over your feet covers your toes. A painting over a fireplace hangs above it.

above and to the other side of: to leap over a wall. above in authority, rank, power, etc., so as to govern, control, or have jurisdiction regarding: There is no one over her in the department now.