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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɹiː.wʌn/
    • IPA(key): /ˈɛv.ɹi.wʌn/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ʌn
    • Hyphenation: every‧one

    Pronoun

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    everyone

    1. Every individual in a set; every person.
      Synonym: everybody
      Antonyms: no one, nobody
      • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
        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.
      • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 22:
        Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.
      • 2016, VOA Learning English‎[1], archived from the original on 30 September 2017, retrieved 12 December 2018:
        Hello, everyone!

    Usage notes

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    • The alternative spaced form every one is used when referring separately to every entity 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.
    • The term is conjugated in the singular ("Is everyone here?"; "Everyone has heard of it.)". However, similar to what occurs with collective nouns, such as crowd or team, the grammatical number of a plural pronoun referring back to it (antecedent) is reflected in the verb conjugation ("Everyone was laughing at first, but then they all stopped.").
    • 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, including everybody, everything, and all.
    • The term logically negates to not everybody rather than no one.

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