every
See also: Every
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwilċ, ǣfre ġehwilċ (“each and every”), equivalent to ever + each and/or ever + which.
Pronunciation
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Determiner
every
- All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
- Every person in the room stood and cheered.
- Template:RQ:WBsnt IvryGt
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
- 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
Antonyms
Derived terms
- a chicken in every pot
- each and every
- every bit
- 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
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ibri
Translations
all of a countable group
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Anagrams
Middle English
Adjective
every
- Alternative form of everich
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.
- And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
- Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.
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