everyone

A1
US /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
pron Freq #313

Meanings

  1. 1
    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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Synonyms
1 pron · every person. everybodythe world and his wife

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