everyone
pron/ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
Etymology An alteration of earlier everychone after every, from Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
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Every person.
- She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. It was well I secured this forage; or both she, I and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one down stairs was too much engaged to think of us.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
- Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 22:
1 more example
- Hello, everyone!2016, VOA Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017:
- Synonyms
- everybody, the world and his wife
- Antonyms
- no one
- Derived terms
- and then everyone clapped, and then everyone on the bus clapped, everyone and his brother, everyone and his cousin, everyone and his dog, everyone and his grandma, everyone and his mother, everyone and their brother, everyone and their cousin, everyone and their dog, everyone and their grandma, everyone and their mother, everyone clapped, everyone else, everyone who is anybody, everyone who is anyone, everyone who's anybody, everyone who's anyone, there for everyone to see, you cannot please everyone
- Related terms
- anyone, everybody, everything, everywhere, no one, someone, quantifier