everywoman

American  

[ev-ree-woom-uhn] / ˈɛv riˌwʊm ən /

noun

plural

everywomen

1. an ordinary woman; a typical or average woman.

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Etymology

Origin of everywoman

1965–70; every + woman, on the model of everyman ( def. )

Example Sentences

“Everything started to become way too expensive, and she became inaccessible, so the branding of her of being the ‘everywoman’ really started to slip away from her,” said Dieppa, a pop culture writer.

From Los Angeles Times

Melissa McCarthy is an everywoman intelligence agent who chooses to go into the field for the first time in this strangely unsung hero of modern comedy.

From Los Angeles Times

Workplace movies “give you very quickly an identifiable everyman or everywoman—somebody we can relate to,” says Ben Mankiewicz, the Turner Classic Movies host and great-nephew of legendary Hollywood screenwriter and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

From The Wall Street Journal

Standing 5 feet 10 with open, friendly features, the Norwegian talent has a grin that makes her appear at once like an endearing everywoman and a large, unpredictable child.

From Los Angeles Times

As “Drive My Car” emphatically demonstrates, the everygirl from the songs of the early Beatles was very quickly transforming into an everywoman, complete with an ego and agenda that wasn’t playing second fiddle to any masculine other.

From Salon