everything
Americanpronoun
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every single thing or every particular of an aggregate or total; all.
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something extremely important.
This news means everything to us.
noun
pronoun
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the entirety of a specified or implied class
she lost everything in the War
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a great deal, esp of something very important
she means everything to me
Etymology
Origin of everything
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; every + thing 1
Example Sentences
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“Michael remembers everything, and came back to me, when the new galleries were being built, and said, ‘Why don’t you do it here?’”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Trapped in a medical limbo, she took a nurse friend’s advice and began writing everything down.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
"Obviously it's helping me in terms of saving money, especially with everything going up in price, but it's also helping with all the stuff that's going into landfill when it's not needed," she said.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Ted Cruz’s beard, which Elle magazine described as “the remnants of an everything bagel,” launched a mini-trend of hirsute Senators in the august body.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Many of them were Indigenous—long.and short-haired, light-and dark-complected, dressed like punks and clean girls and mob wives and everything else that had ever become an aesthetic.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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