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everyone

everyone

1.0
All the people in a group
  • pronoun
  • /ˈɛvriˌwʌn/
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  • So first let's explain to everyone what's going on here.
  • everyone else
  • everyone knows
  • almost everyone

Hey, Black, You want to tell everyone the big news?

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Examples

  • After my mom died, everyone was in such a hurry to go back to normal.

  • So the door is open often, but it's open to everyone.

  • And I went, oh, my God, everyone calm down.

  • Hey, Black, You want to tell everyone the big news?

  • Do you think that everyone has purpose?

  • Thank you to everyone at Island Records.

  • Everyone can write and everyone can be a writer.

  • By the end of the speech, everyone listening knew we had entered a new age.

    Academic text (2011)
  • This doesn't just affect me, it affects everyone.

  • During the meeting, everyone agreed that we should move forward with the project.

Synonyms

all
vseveryone
1.0

Everything in a group or the whole amount of something

applies specifically to people rather than to quantities
everybody
vseveryone
1.0

All the people in a group or situation

is the same idea but stated more neutrally
one and all
vseveryone
23 2.8

All people without exception

is similar but used less for emphasis
everybody and his brother
vseveryone
  • Informal
1 6.7

A very large number of people, almost everyone

points to each member literally rather than as exaggeration

Idioms

Easy for everyone to see

How Inclusive

everyone
1.0
most
1.0
many
9 1.0
some
1.0
few
1.0

Surface Forms

everyone subject case
everyone object case
everyone's possessive determiner
everyone possessive pronoun
oneself reflexive

Morphology

everyone = every + one (transparent) = every + one

The pronoun is a straightforward combination of 'every' + 'one' meaning 'every person', which learners can directly infer.

Etymology

Everyone is just every + one: every means 'all' and one means 'a single person'. So everyone means 'all people', and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine pointing to each person and saying 'every one'.