everyone
A1
pron
Freq #313
Meanings
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pron
Every person.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
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