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everybody

[ ev-ree-bod-ee, -buhd-ee ]

pronoun

  1. every person.


everybody

/ ˈɛvrɪˌbɒdɪ /

pronoun

  1. every person; everyone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Usage Note

See each, else.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of everybody1

First recorded in 1520–30; every + body
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Example Sentences

Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

I think everybody would like to be handsome and good at karate.

Everybody stays—because by the end, his triumph feels like your own.

Just this year we sponsored the Reaching Out MBA Conference and in that conference I introduced my fiancé to everybody.

For everybody else, public schools were the only option—and these institutions often had an abysmal record.

Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.

We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.

Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!

Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.

So everybody began looking for the appearance of his story in all the leading magazines.

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