everyone

Every person.

Pronoun

  1. Every person.
    • She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. It was well I secured this forage; or both she, I and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance...
    • Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face. - 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914,...
    • Hello, everyone! - 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017:

Origin

An alteration of earlier everychone after every, from Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.

Forms

every one arrywun e'eryone e'ryone

Synonyms

everybody the world and his wife

Antonyms

no one

Related

anyone everybody everything everywhere no one someone quantifier

Derived

and then everyone clapped and then everyone on the bus clapped everyone and his brother everyone and his cousin everyone and his dog everyone and his grandma everyone and his mother everyone and their brother everyone and their cousin everyone and their dog everyone and their grandma everyone and their mother everyone clapped everyone else everyone who is anybody everyone who is anyone everyone who's anybody everyone who's anyone there for everyone to see you cannot please everyone