everywoman
Americannoun
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everywomen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of everywoman
1965–70; every + woman, on the model of everyman ( def. )
Example Sentences
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A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
That novel, which was published in 2016 in South Korea and four years later in the United States, chronicled the overwhelming sexism faced by a Korean everywoman, with footnotes documenting real-world gender inequality.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
I always felt that Mercedes, she was our everywoman.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022
Relatable in an ordinary, everywoman kind of way is great on a rope line, but it doesn’t get you headlines.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2022
Like all great epic tales, the breathtakingly zany “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” starring Michelle Yeoh as a harried everywoman called upon to save the multiverse, is about a simple concept at its core: love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
His characters, linked in a maternal chain, are everywomen — or anywomen — positioned equidistantly along a conveyor belt between birth and death.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Some of the protagonists are everywomen, more representative of someone you could know in real life.
From Time ● Apr. 23, 2015
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