Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun All things or all of a group of things.
- pronoun All relevant matters.
- pronoun The most important fact or consideration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun All things, taken separately; any total or aggregate, considered with reference to its constituent parts; each separate item or particular: as, everything in the house or in the world; everything one says or does.
- noun That which is important in the highest degree: as, it will be everything to him to get this office.
- noun Very much; a great deal: as, he thinks everything of her.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun literally
All thethings underdiscussion . - pronoun colloquial
Many ormost things . - pronoun colloquial A
state ofwell-being (from allparts of thewhole ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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You go on myspace and read everything, and you read all their friends, and you know * everything*. danah: Stigma.
Liz Henry: BlogHer Day Two: Sensitive Topics and Outreach 2008
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I look at the screen and I see this character who is the hero of a action-comedy space opera, and I know that everything I see, *everything* I see, I see because writers and actors and directors wanted me to see this.
2006 year in fic review, or: Did I really do *that*? hth_the_first 2007
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Apparently when everything around me is quiet, my brain decides to make up for the silence and think and over analyze everything
goldylockz22 Diary Entry goldylockz22 2004
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She's just traded identities -- and everything else she does -- _everything_ else -- stems logically out of her delusional premise.
Brain Twister Laurence M. Janifer 1967
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With everything (and I mean _everything_) coming into my mind for the past twenty-three years, haven't I learned enough to make decisions for myself?
Second Sight Alan Edward Nourse 1960
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She's just traded identities -- and everything else she does -- _everything_ else -- stems logically out of her delusional premise.
That Sweet Little Old Lady Randall Garrett 1957
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I have lost many a thing; and when I was boasting just now that I had everything in my sack, I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited capacity are, in the use of the two words _everything_ and _nothing_.
Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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There are plenty of women who take everything -- _everything_ -- and give nothing in return.
Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg
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"I told him it was against my duty, sir; but he told me I must never dispute the Church, so he walked in and examined everything -- _everything_; he even opened the cupboards."
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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And then I felt so cosy and warm and safe that I told her everything -- _everything_, all about Mother Lynch and how my plans for the House of Laughter had failed at first, and then the
Red-Robin Jane Abbott
bilby commented on the word everything
11 Wordies have everything. I'm not sure I'd want everything. I'm a bit short on cupboard space.
October 5, 2008