everyone

[ ev-ree-wuhn, -wuhn ]

pronoun

1. every person; everybody.

everyone

/ ˈɛvrɪˌwʌn; -wən /

pronoun

1. every person; everybody

Usage Note

See each.

Usage

Everyone and everybody are interchangeable, as are no one and nobody, and someone and somebody. Care should be taken to distinguish between everyone and someone as single words and every one and some one as two words, the latter form correctly being used to refer to each individual person or thing in a particular group: every one of them is wrong

Word History and Origins

Origin of everyone¹

First recorded in 1175–1225, everyone is from the Middle English word everichon. See every, one

Idioms and Phrases

see entries under every man .

Example Sentences

Everyone out there who says, “Charlie Hebdo provoked,” is making the same fundamental error.

From The Daily Beast

Almost everyone there will be a decent person and treat you well.

From The Daily Beast

“Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

From The Daily Beast

As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.

From The Daily Beast

This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.

From Project Gutenberg

It would make everyone careful, of course, but I fail to see any grievance in that.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a corso blanc, and everyone wore white—chiefly modifications of Pierrot costume—and everyone was masked.

From Project Gutenberg

But the impression was so fleeting as to be indefinable, and soon I was busy getting everyone settled in the car.

From Project Gutenberg

He wrote the fine poem of “Little Jim,” which everyone knew, and which almost every boy and girl could recite.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• anybody
• everybody
• people