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everybody

everybody

1.0
All the people in a group or situation
  • pronoun
  • /ˈɛvriˌbɑdi/
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  • At the meeting, everybody contributed their ideas to the discussion.
  • everybody else
  • everybody knows
  • everybody wants

But it was Cesar who everybody had written off.

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Examples

  • Now, in three days, it seems as if I know everybody.

  • When they brought in the cake, everybody in the place sang happy birthday to May Anna.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • All right, all right, everybody back to it.

  • And So what if you knew what everybody on the planet wanted?

  • You know, we live in a place where everybody has a say.

  • It's just that you have access to everybody in the world.

  • And pretty much everybody said I got a day job.

  • All right, everybody, stand down!

  • I guess everybody in the territory does.

  • So one thing I've learned is not everybody is your friend, right?

Synonyms

everyone
vseverybody
1.0

All the people in a group

is the same meaning but used as the other common form
one and all
vseverybody
23 2.8

All people without exception

is a neutral term for all people without that stress

Idioms

1 6.7

A very large number of people, almost everyone

How Many

everybody
1.0
many
9 1.0
some
1.0
a few
1.0
nobody
1.0

Surface Forms

everybody subject case
everybody object case
everybody's possessive determiner
everybody possessive pronoun
everybody reflexive

Morphology

everybody = every + body (transparent) = every + body

Meaning is directly derived from 'every' + 'body' = 'every person', which learners can infer from the components.

Etymology

The word everybody is just every ('each') plus body ('person'), so it originally meant 'each person' and now means 'all people'.