English Online Dictionary. What means everyone? What does everyone mean?
English
Alternative forms
- every one (archaic or when referring to every person or thing in a group separately, not as a group)
- arrywun (Bermuda)
Etymology
From Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
- Rhymes: -ʌn
Pronoun
everyone
- Every person.
Usage notes
- Spelled every one when referring separately to every person or thing in a specified group: There were three patients and she helped every one [of them]. In such cases it cannot be replaced with everybody without changing the sense.
- Everyone takes a singular verb: Is everyone here?; Everyone has heard of it. However, similar to what occurs with collective or group nouns like crowd or team, sometimes a plural pronoun refers back to everyone which is also reflected in verb conjugations: Everyone was laughing at first, but then they all stopped. / Everyone has a smart phone nowadays, don't they?
- In colloquial speech it is common to say everyone is not X instead of not everyone is X (both of which may potentially have the intended meaning that most people are not X). The same is true of other universal qualifiers such as everybody, everything, all.
Synonyms
- (every person): everybody, the world and his wife
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “every person”): no one
Derived terms
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Translations
See also
- Thesaurus:quantifier
Further reading
- “everyone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.