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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English everichon, equivalent to every + one.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
everyone
- Every person.
- 1847 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVII
- It was well I secured this forage […] ; everyone downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.
- 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, "An Encounter"
- Everyone's heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Hello, everyone!
Audio (US) (file)
- Hello, everyone!
- 1847 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVII
Usage notes[edit]
- This can be used loosely to mean "the majority of people," though linguistic purists will protest. 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: Everyone was laughing at first, but then they all stopped.
Synonyms[edit]
- (every person): everybody, the world and his wife
Antonyms[edit]
- (every person): no one
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
every person
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References[edit]
- everyone at OneLook Dictionary Search