Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Constituting each and all members of a group without exception.
- adj. Being all possible: had every chance of winning, but lost.
- adj. Being each of a specified succession of objects or intervals: every third seat; every two hours.
- adj. Being the highest degree or expression of: showed us every attention; had every hope of succeeding.
- idiom. every bit Informal In all ways; equally: He is every bit as mean as she is.
- idiom. then From time to time; occasionally.
- idiom. every once in a while From time to time; occasionally.
- idiom. every other Each alternate: She went to visit her aunt every other week.
- idiom. every so often At intervals; occasionally.
- idiom. every which way Informal In every direction.
- idiom. every which way Informal In complete disorder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Each, considered indefinitely as a unitary part of an aggregate; all, of a collective or aggregate number, taken one by one; any, as representing all of whom or of which the same thing is predicated. A proposition containing every before a class name is equivalent to the totality of statements formed by replacing this expression by the name of each individual of the class. But if not is placed before every, the meaning is that some one or more of these individual propositions are not true. Thus, “not every man is a poet” does not mean that not any man is a poet, but only that some men are not poets. In many cases, however, every is ambiguous.
- each one (of the whole number); every person; everybody.
- Each of any number of persons or things; every one.
- n. An obsolete form of ivory. Wright
Wiktionary
- All of a countable group, without exception.
- Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.
- adj. obsolete Every one. Cf. Each.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
- adj. (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
Etymologies
- From Middle English everich, which is made up of Old English ǣfre ("ever") + ǣlċ ("each"). Furthermore, ǣfre itself comes from ā in feore ("ever in life"), and ǣlċ from ā ġelīċ ("ever alike"). Thus equivalent to ever + each. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English everi, everich, from Old English ǣfre ǣlc : ǣfre, ever; see aiw- in Indo-European roots + ǣlc, each; see līk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's coming out of every rock, every drop of rain, every flower, every particle of air, every stitch of clothing, every cell of skin, every bead upon our silly heads.”
“I dreamt I was at a huge convention, but every pro writer bailed except for me and Catherine Asaro, and we were forced to do _every_ panel.”
“By every place, we really mean *every* place — there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities all over the world.”
“I recently did a patent investigation and we had to mark every single configuration setting it was a wireless comm application and note _every_ deviation in the setup from what would otherwise be considered the norm.”
“It works out to one cupcake every two or three weeks, assuming *every* mother brings in cupcakes which is of course not the case.”
"Banning cupcakes is almost like an assault on the national identity."
“What was is thatThomas Jefferson said..every 50 years there should be a….hhmmmm..cant seem to remember the rest ..oh yeah every 50 year there should be a rev******CENSORED******”
“_I've_ been wondering, why is the Army spending all its resources to gather up not just every last piece of eetee salvage, but nearly _every person_ who's worked with it?”
Asimov's Science Fiction
“A hungry man is an angry one;" so runs the legend, but, if true, and I have every reason to believe that it is, it held not on the lower deck of the "Iron Duke" this day, for _no_ man was angry, and _every_ man”
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
“I would give every traveling man, every business man, _every man_ this same advice.”
“I think it would be better to do away with all such qualifying expressions, and constantly maintain (what I certainly believe to be the fact) that _variations of every kind_ are _always occurring_ in _every part_ of _every species_, and therefore that favourable variations are _always ready_ when wanted.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘every’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Big Tent
Universal quantifiers, totalizing pronouns and superlatives will save us ALL (and NONE)!
everyone, nobody, all, every, none, everybody, never, always, no one, nothing, nowhere, everywhere and 16 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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names from everyday words
words that may or may not work as names
Michigan, random, sprout, umber, nomad, arrow, burnish, blink, flex, follow, candour, caution and 26 more...
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extremes
Words that are used as extremes
abject poverty or abject melancholy
roaring drunk
blistering pace
blindingly fast
dead tired
glowing review
vast maj...abject, roaring, blistering, dead, glowing, vast, every, an arm and a leg, pay through the nose, blindingly, patently, consummate
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flyrobynfly's Words
timer, word, curator, limited, what, love, torture, speed, compassion, terror, romance, seed and 55 more...
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Basic English -- operations
Basic English -- 100 words for operations
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do and 88 more...
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Mnemonics: Guitar Strings
From sixth to first (in order added)
Tweets
Looking for tweets for every.
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