every

English

Alternative forms

• ev’ry (poetic)
• euery (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɛv.ɹɪ/, SAMPA: /"Ev.rI/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɛv.ɹi/, SAMPA: /"Ev.ri/

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• Hyphenation: eve‧ry or ev‧e‧ry

Etymology

From Middle English everich, which is made up of Old English ǣfre (“ever”) + ǣlċ (“each”). Furthermore, ǣfre itself comes from ā in feore ("ever in life"), and ǣlċ from ā ġelīċ ("ever alike").

Determiner

every

1. All of a countable group, without exception.

   Every person in the room stood and cheered.

2. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.

   Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.

   Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.

Synonyms

• each

Antonyms

• no

Derived terms

a chicken in every pot each and every everybody every cloud has a silver lining every dog has its day every five minutes every last every little helps every man for himself every man Jack, every man jack every nook and cranny everyone

every other every second every so often everything every time everywhere every which way every which where hang on someone's every word there are two sides to every question there is an exception to every rule worth every penny

Translations

every

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: cilido Arabic: كل (ar) (kull) Armenian: ամեն (hy) (amen) Azerbaijani: hər Belarusian: кожны (be) (kóžny) m. Bulgarian: всеки (bg) (vséki) m. Catalan: cada Chinese: Cantonese: 每 (mui5) Gan: please add this translation if you can Hakka: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 每 (cmn) (měi), 各 (cmn) (gè) Min Dong: please add this translation if you can Min Nan: please add this translation if you can Wu: please add this translation if you can Croatian: svaki Czech: každý m. (1) (2) Danish: hver (da) Dutch: elk (nl), ieder (nl) Esperanto: ĉiu (eo) Estonian: kõik (et) Finnish: jokainen (1.), joka (2.), välein (2.) French: tout (fr), chaque (fr) Georgian: ყველა (qvela) German: jeder (de), jede (de), jedes (de) Greek: κάθε (el) (káthe) Hebrew: כל (he) (kol) Hindi: हर (hi) (har) Hungarian: minden (hu) Icelandic: sérhver (is), hver (is) Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: setiap Interlingua: cata (ia) Irish: gach (ga) Italian: ogni (it)

Japanese: あらゆる (ja) (arayuru), 全ての (ja) (すべての, subete-no), それぞれ (ja) (sorezore), おのおの (ja) (onoono), …毎に (ja) (…goto-no), (prefix) 毎 (ja) (まい-, mai-), 各 (ja) (かく, kaku) Kazakh: әр (kk) (är) Korean: 각 (ko) (gak), 모든 (ko) (modeun), 매- (ko) (mae-) Kurdish: هه‌مو Latin: quisque (la), omnis (la) Latvian: katrs Lithuanian: kiekvienas Mongolian: бүр (mn) (bür) Norwegian: hver (no) Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: هر (fa) (har) Polish: każdy (pl) m., każda (pl) f., każde (pl) n. Portuguese: cada (pt) Romani: sako m., saki f., sake pl. Romanian: fiecare (ro) Russian: каждый (ru) (každyj) m., всякий (ru) (vsjákij) m. Scottish Gaelic: a h-uile Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сваки (sh) Roman: svaki (sh) Slovak: každý (sk) Slovene: vsak (sl) m., vsaka (sl) f., vsako (sl) n. Spanish: cada (es) Swahili: kila (sw) Swedish: varje (sv) (1.), var (sv) (2.) Telugu: ప్రతి (te) (prati) Thai: ทุก (th) (túk) Turkish: her (tr) Ukrainian: кожний (uk) (kóžnyj) m. Urdu: ہر (ur) (har) Vietnamese: mỗi (vi), các (vi) Welsh: pob Yiddish: יעדער (yi) (yeder)

See also

• all
• each

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: many · work · too · #127: every · think · life · went

Anagrams

• veery
• verye