everyone

[ ev-ree-wuhn, -wuhn ]

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pronoun

every person; everybody.

Origin of everyone

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

usage note For everyone

See each.

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How to use everyone in a sentence

But every-one must attach themselves to some chief, or they would undoubtedly be put to death or reduced to slavery.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 | Robert Kerr
With these tokens every-one breathes again and is delighted.
The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals | Edward Everett Hale
Li konas ĉies nomon, he knows every-one's name.Ĉies opinio estis diversa, every-body's opinion was different.Kies voĉojn mi aŭdas?
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto | Ivy Kellerman Reed
Once he put his hat on a pole in the market-place, and said that it was the duty of-every-one to kneel before it.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto | Ivy Kellerman Reed
He understood the motives of all the characters and pleaded every-one's cause.
August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt | L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

British Dictionary definitions for everyone (1 of 2)

everyone

/ (ˈɛvrɪˌwʌn, -wən) /

pronoun

every person; everybody

usage For everyone

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

British Dictionary definitions for every one (2 of 2)

every one

pronoun

each person or thing in a group, without exception: every one of the large cats is a fast runner

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