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everyone

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English

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Alternative forms

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  • every one (archaic or when referring to every person or thing in a group separately, not as a group)
  • arrywun (Bermuda)

Etymology

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From Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every +‎ one.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Pronoun

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everyone

  1. Every person.
    • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
      She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. It was well I secured this forage; or both she, I and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one down stairs was too much engaged to think of us.
    • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 22:
      Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)‎[1], archived from the original on 30 September 2017:
      Hello, everyone!
      Audio (US):(file)

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of “every person”): no one

Derived terms

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Translations

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See also

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Further reading

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  • “everyone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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