everything

[ ev-ree-thing ]

/ ˈɛv riˌθɪŋ /

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pronoun

every single thing or every particular of an aggregate or total; all.

something extremely important: This news means everything to us.

noun

something that is extremely or most important: Money is his everything.

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Origin of everything

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at every, thing¹

Words nearby everything

everyone, every other, everyplace, every single one, every so often, everything, everything but the kitchen sink, every time one turns around, every Tom, Dick, and Harry, everyway, everywhen

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How to use everything in a sentence

To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.
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And so he looked at her, smiled, and offered a polite “Is everything okay?”
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Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.
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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
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Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.
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So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
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He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
I should like it to be used for Maude; and mind, I'll see to everything; you need not give yourself any trouble at all.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood

British Dictionary definitions for everything

everything

/ (ˈɛvrɪθɪŋ) /

pronoun

the entirety of a specified or implied classshe lost everything in the War

a great deal, esp of something very importantshe means everything to me

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

Other Idioms and Phrases with everything

everything

In addition to the idiom beginning with everything

everything but the kitchen sink

also see:

hold everything

everything

Origin of everything

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British Dictionary definitions for everything

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