overnight vs over night
overnight
Definitions
adverb
- happening in a short time or with great speed
- during or for the length of one night
adjective
- lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
Examples
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight.
She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow.
