everywhere

American  

[ev-ree-hwair, -wair] / ˈɛv riˌʰwɛər, -ˌwɛər /

adverb

1. in every place or part; in all places.

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everywhere British  

/ ˈɛvrɪˌwɛə /

adverb

1. to or in all parts or places

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everywhere Idioms  

1. see all over (everywhere); here, there, and everywhere.

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Spelling

See anyplace.

Etymology

Origin of everywhere

1175–1225; Middle English everihwer, representing 2 formations: every every + hwer where, and ever ever + ihwer anywhere, everywhere ( Old English gehwǣr; y-, where )

Explanation

The adverb everywhere means in all possible places. If you take your phone with you everywhere you go, it means you have it with you in all the places you travel. You can use everywhere literally, but it's probably more common to use it in an exaggerating way. For example, if you can't find your glasses, you might say, "I've looked everywhere for them!" You haven't actually looked everywhere, in every possible place — you've actually only looked in all the places you think you might have left your glasses. In Old English, it's æfre gehwær.

Example Sentences

Collections by new designer Demna are going down well with American consumers, but shoppers everywhere else are nonplussed so far.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The Iran of today is also visible everywhere we stop, with some women wearing veils and scarves and others, of all ages, bare-headed.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

That sentence structure is popping up everywhere these days, and linguists tie its popularity to AI models.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Life in its most beautiful forms — the poetic, artistic range of Black life in South-Central — is on display everywhere you look here.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

I step outside to see if it’s a power outage everywhere or just in our apartment.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Related Words

• far and wide
• here and there
• omnipresent
• ubiquitous