everybody

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It had been a time of torment for everybody--everybody was agreed on that; and Mrs. Sandworth had felt that life in the same house with Lydia's godfather had given her more than her share of misery On this dark November evening she was so tired that every inch of her soft plumpness ached.

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  1. pronoun Every person; everyone.

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  • So here we are still chattering in English, everybody's second language, which is easier to learn anyway and politically okay because England and America don't amount to much any longer, so nobody feels intimidated by them. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • In places like Brazil where I am now, everybody, and I mean everybody is a Hopey fan, and they all hate Bush. —  The Wall Street Examiner
  • The whole nation paused to do just that-everybody, that is, except the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. —  THE BLACK KETTLE
  • You can make this assumption if you want, but some us actually try not to be hypocrites, and those of us that do, do not automatically label everybody else as such and do not just write it off as just how everybody is. —  The Register-Guard: RSS Feeds
  • "My family came out of the woodwork - everybody was there," she recalls.
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  1. from every + body. Cf. anybody, somebody, nobody.
 

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/ˈɛvrɪbɑdi/
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