everywhere
nounEtymology From Middle English eauerihwer, from Old English æfre + gehwær. By surface analysis, every + where.
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All places or locations.
- I went out to get some groceries, but everywhere was closed.
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- quantifier
everywhere
advUK /ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)weə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ/
Etymology From Middle English eauerihwer, from Old English æfre + gehwær. By surface analysis, every + where.
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In or to all locations under discussion.
- He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.
- We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms.
1 more example
- Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
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Colloquial, Excessive In or to a few or more locations.
- We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.
- When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.
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- I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.
- Flutters of excitement were everywhere apparent.1928, Charles Francis Stocking, The Identity of Douglas Bain, Maestro Company, page 239:
- Antonyms
- nowhere
- Derived terms
- almost everywhere, everyware, everywhere else, everywhereness, here, there and everywhere
- Related terms
- anywhere, everybody, everyone, everything, every which where, nowhere, somewhere