everyone

[ev-ree-wuhn, -wuhn]

pronoun

1. every person; everybody.

everyone

/ ˈɛvrɪˌwʌn, -wən /

pronoun

1. every person; everybody

Usage

See each.

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

But as everyone is buying, and the price has just gone through the roof, don’t be shocked if there’s soon a sharp move down.

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Right now everyone seems to want gold, and — notably — almost nobody seems to want bonds.

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These kids made me question things I’d always taken for granted—that the power of America was inevitable, for example, and that everyone wanted to be like us.

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“I ruined Dana’s weekend. It was just non stop phone calls all weekend,” Kimmel said, saying he doubted the situation would have turned out so well “if I hadn’t talked to Dana as much as I did, because it helped me think everything through, and it helped me just kind of understand where everyone was coming from.”

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In my older son’s last year of preschool, his bearded, guitar-strumming teacher sat the class down in a circle and asked everyone to name their favorite songs.

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Related Words

• anybody 
• everybody 
• people