everyone

[ev-ree-wuhn, -wuhn]

pronoun

1. every person; everybody.

everyone

/ ˈɛvrɪˌwʌn, -wən /

pronoun

1. every person; everybody

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

See each.

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

Jared Bush, co-writer and co-director of “Zootopia 2” and chief creative officer of Walt Disney’s animation studio, attributed the film’s success to the way it speaks to everyone around the world.

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“Of course, everyone wants an alternative, and those alternatives will have good economics for some applications,” Moore said.

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It was the talk of the town, an opera with a little something for everyone, an opera that that stands for something culturally, spiritually and ethically.

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Felix on Fulham: It's been such a weird season because the table is so tight at the moment that one bad result makes everyone worry about relegation, and a couple of good ones, like we've just had, makes you think 'oh we're only five points from being fifth'.

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“I am 15 years old. I knew with certainty that I am trans when I was 10 years old. When I first came out, everyone rejected me and told me it was a phase,” said one person in their written testimony.

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Related Words

• anybody 
• everybody 
• people