everywoman
Americannoun
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everywomen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of everywoman
1965–70; every + woman, on the model of everyman ( def. )
Example Sentences
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"They are everyman and everywoman, they are just normal people with normal lives, there's nothing special about them and this very special event happens to them and it just draws you in."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2023
The Wife of Bath is an everywoman, but she’s also a singular literary creation, a character who transcends her moment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
But Porter’s superpower is her credential as a populist everywoman.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
I always felt that Mercedes, she was our everywoman.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022
Like all great epic tales, the breathtakingly zany “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” starring Michelle Yeoh as a harried everywoman called upon to save the multiverse, is about a simple concept at its core: love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
His characters, linked in a maternal chain, are everywomen — or anywomen — positioned equidistantly along a conveyor belt between birth and death.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Some of the protagonists are everywomen, more representative of someone you could know in real life.
From Time ● Apr. 23, 2015
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