Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ordinary person, representative of the human race.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ordinary person
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Examples
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Roth's latest book Everyman is wonderfully wrought.
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And once Everyman is marginalised, they will carry on down their destructive path, making the UK into Europe's Zimbabwe.
Checkmate Dungeekin 2009
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And once Everyman is marginalised, they will carry on down their destructive path, making the UK into Europe's Zimbabwe.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Slung Low, the team behind Anthology at Liverpool's Everyman, is one; and Unlimited, making its first children's show – the ambitious Mission To Mars at Wimbledon's Polka – is another.
This week's new theatre Mark Cook 2010
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And seemingly everyone in publishing wants to get their mitts on Philip Roth's new novel, with the excellent Rothian title Everyman (due out from Harcourt in May).
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Roth believes we all face death alone and his Everyman is utterly alone.
Archive 2006-09-01 ____Maggie 2006
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Roth believes we all face death alone and his Everyman is utterly alone.
Everyman (copy) ____Maggie 2006
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For all its diminutive scale, this is not a story of The Hero in Everyman ™.
play it again, Sam 2004
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Everyman is at-last forsaken by Beauty, and Power and Wealth, and all the other allegorical figures, and is left alone to face Desolation and the Judgment of Heaven, with only Good Deeds to befriend him.
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While the word Everyman has been tossed around rather loosely for the past 500 years or so, Richter, with his pillowy physique, Illinois inflections, and "Howdy, neighbor!" manner, actually fits the bill.
Slate Magazine 2009
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