Everyone Meaning
/ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
pronEvery person.
Sentence Examples
I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
We should spend the money on something that will benefit everyone.
CEFR Practice Quiz
____ in the class passed the difficult exam with high scores.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company announced a bonus for ____ who had worked there for more than five years.
Word Origin & History
An alteration of earlier everychone after every, from Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 of getting no dinner at all: every one down stairs was too much engaged to think of us."
— 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
"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, →OCLC, page 22:
"Hello, everyone!"
— 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
____ in the class passed the difficult exam with high scores.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company announced a bonus for ____ who had worked there for more than five years.