everyone
See also: every one
English
Alternative forms
- every one (archaic or when referring to every person or thing in a group separately, not as a group)
- arrywun (Bermuda)
Etymology
From Middle English everichon, equivalent to every + one.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
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Pronoun
everyone
- Every person.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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:
- Everyone's heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 30 September 2017:
- Hello, everyone!
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Usage notes
- Spelled every one when referring separately to every person or thing in a specified group: There were three patients and she helped every one [of them]. In such cases it cannot be replaced with everybody without changing the sense.
- 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?
- In colloquial speech it is common to say everyone is not X instead of not everyone is X (both of which may potentially have the intended meaning that most people are not X). The same is true of other universal qualifiers such as everybody, everything, all.
Synonyms
- (every person): everybody, the world and his wife
Antonyms
- (every person): 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
Translations
every person
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See also
References
- “everyone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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