anyone
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1.0
- pronoun
- /ˈɛniˌwʌn/
:
alguien
- The teacher said that anyone can participate in the competition.
- anyone else
- tell anyone
- ever met anyone
It could happen to anyone and I love it.
- It could happen to anyone and I love it.
- Which leaves the question, can anyone turn CNN around?
- Do you like or know anyone that likes English muffins?
- It's, it's not tangible to anyone else except for you.
- I mean, in fact, he didn't really like anyone's poems mostly.
- What I realized was that not knowing anyone was freeing.
- I'd never been like that to anyone, to anyone, ever.
- Like we can't have anyone saying truly anything.
- But I would say next to no one asks anyone that.
Examples
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Northern Ireland has no truly shared space, no place where anyone can come at any time.
Academic text (2011) -
A thing like that could happen to anyone.
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And Google will for one day let anyone in the US buy Glass.
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Maybe it was the first time anyone ever looked at you.
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Which leaves the question, can anyone turn CNN around?
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Have you ever kissed anyone, Henry?
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I don't know why anyone would make a movie like this.
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Doctors stand by to revive anyone who passes out in the water.
Academic text (2011) -
In the mornings, I get to the mall before anyone else, even the other shop owners.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm not convinced anyone else does either!
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who may be anyone when you do not say which one
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1.0
Anyone who does something, no matter who they are
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8.3
Any person, no matter who they are
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anyone comes from the two simple parts any and one; any once meant 'one', so the word is like saying 'any one' person picked from a group. That's why anyone means 'any person at all', without saying who.