everyone
See also: every one
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- arrywun (Bermuda)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English everichon, equivalent to every + one.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
everyone
- Every person.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777:
- It was well I secured this forage […] ; everyone downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.
- 1914 June, James Joyce, Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, OCLC 1170255194:
- Everyone's heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)[1]:
- Hello, everyone!
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Usage notesEdit
- Everyone takes a singular verb: Is everyone here?; Everyone has heard of it. However, similar to what occurs with collective or group nouns like crowd or team, sometimes a plural pronoun refers back to everyone which is also reflected in verb conjugations: Everyone was laughing at first, but then they all stopped. / Everyone has a smart phone nowadays, don't they?
- Along with other universal qualifiers such as all, everybody, and everything, constructions of the form "everyone is not X" are common in colloquial speech usually with the intended meaning of "most people are not X."
SynonymsEdit
- (every person): everybody, the world and his wife
AntonymsEdit
- (every person): no one
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
every person
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ReferencesEdit
- everyone at OneLook Dictionary Search