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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- arrybody (Bermuda)
- e'rybody
- everbody
- ever'body
- everybuddy
- every body
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛvɹiˌbɒdi/
Audio (UK): (file) - (stressed, US) IPA(key): /ˈɛvɹiˌbʌdi/, /ˈɛvɹiˌbɑdi/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: eve‧ry‧bod‧y
Pronoun
[edit]everybody (indefinite pronoun)
- All people.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Usage notes
[edit]- Everybody takes a singular verb: Is everybody here?; Everybody has heard of it. However, similar to what occurs with collective or group nouns like crowd or team, sometimes an antecedent of everybody is used as a plural: Everybody was laughing at first, but then they all stopped.
Synonyms
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- everybody and his brother
- everybody and his cousin
- everybody and his dog
- everybody and his grandma
- everybody and his mother
- everybody and their brother
- everybody and their cousin
- everybody and their dog
- everybody and their grandma
- everybody and their mother
- everybody else
- everybody who is anybody
- everybody who is anyone
- everybody who's anybody
- everybody who's anyone
- on everybody's lips
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Translations
[edit]all people
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