# everything
## English
### Alternative forms

* (eye dialect, AAVE): e'rythin', e'rythang, e'rything, ev'ryting, ev'rythang, ev'ythang, ev'rything, ev'ythin', ev'ything, eve'ything, errythin,
* (eye dialect, Caribbean): everytin', everyting
* (eye dialect, Southern US): everytang
* (obsolete): every thing, evrything, evrythin

### Etymology

Univerbation of every +‎ thing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: eve‧ry‧thing or ev‧e‧ry‧thing

### Pronoun

everything
* (literally) All the things under discussion.
    I checked the list again and everything is done.
    Thank you for everything you've done for us.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
* (colloquial, hyperbolic) Many or most things.
    A:What do you want to do at the amusement park? B:Everything!
    I did everything today - washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
** 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]
* (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
    She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
    Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
* (colloquial) Considerable effort.
    It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
* (colloquial) The most important thing.
    I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!

#### Synonyms

* all

#### Antonyms

* nothing

#### Derived terms

* all-everything
* and everything
* antieverything
* call someone everything but a child of God
* carry everything before one
* chips-with-everything
* chips with everything
* everything and the kitchen sink
* everything bagel
* everything but the galley stove
* everything but the kitchen sink
* everything happens for a reason
* everything including the kitchen sink
* everything in the garden is lovely
* everything in the garden is rosy
* everything is everything
* everything is fair in love and war
* everything is rosy in the garden
* everythingness
* everything old is new again
* everything one touches turns to gold
* everything one touches turns to shit
* everything under the sun
* how's everything
* if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
* know everything
* know-everything
* leave everything on the road
* mean everything to
* my everything
* now I've heard everything
* now I've seen everything
* posteverything
* sugar and spice and everything nice
* talk everything
* theory of everything
* there is a time and place for everything
* timing is everything

#### Related terms

* anything
* every
* everybody
* everyone
* everywhen
* everywhere
* nothing
* something

#### Translations

Afrikaans: alles (af)
Aghwan: 𐕠𐔴𐕀 (cex)
Albanian: e tëra (sq) , tan (sq)(gheg)
Apache:
Western Apache: dawa
Arabic: كُلّ شَيْء (kull šayʔ)
Egyptian Arabic: كل حاجة (kul ḥaga)
Moroccan Arabic: كل شي (kull ši)
Aragonese: tot
Azerbaijani: hər şey, hamısı (az)
Basque: den
Belarusian: усё (be) (usjó)
Bengali: সবকিছু (bn) (śobkichu)
Bulgarian: вси́чко (bg) n (vsíčko)
Carpathian Rusyn: вшы́тко (všŷ́tko)
Catalan: tot (ca)
Cherokee: ᎢᎬᏩᏕᎴᎩ (igvwadelegi)
Cheyenne: mȧheto
Chinese:
Cantonese: 凡事 (faan$^4$ si$^6$), 一切 (jat$^1$ cai$^3$), 萬事 / 万事 (maan$^6$ si$^6$), 乜嘢都 (mat$^1$ je$^5$ dou$^1$)
Eastern Min: please add this translation if you can
Gan: please add this translation if you can
Hakka: 凡事 (fàm-sṳ), 萬事 / 万事 (van-sṳ)
Hokkien: 凡事 (zh-min-nan) (hoân-sū), 萬事 / 万事 (zh-min-nan) (bān-sū), 一切 (zh-min-nan) (it-chhè)
Mandarin: 一切 (zh) (yīqiè), 每事 (zh) (měishì), 什麼都 / 什么都 (shénme dōu), 凡事 (zh) (fánshì), 萬事 / 万事 (zh) (wànshì)
Chuvash: йӑлт (jălt)
Czech: všechno (cs) n, všechen (cs) m (before an uncountable noun)
Danish: alt (da)
Dutch: alles (nl)
Egyptian: (tm)
Esperanto: ĉio (eo)
Estonian: kõik (et)
Faroese: alt
Finnish: kaikki (fi)
French: tout (fr) m
Galician: todo (gl) m
Georgian: ყველაფერი (q̇velaperi)
German: alles (de) n
Silesian: olles n (Olles, Alles)
Greek: όλα (el) n pl (óla), τα πάντα n pl (ta pánta)
Ancient: πάντα n pl (pánta)
Hebrew: הכל (he) (hachol)
Hindi: सब कुछ (sab kuch), सब (hi) (sab)
Hungarian: minden (hu), mind (hu) (when it is about a previously mentioned group)
Icelandic: allt (is)
Ido: omno (io)
Indonesian: segala sesuatu, semuanya (id)
Interlingua: omne, toto
Irish: gach rud
Istriot: doûto
Italian: tutto (it)
Japanese: 全て (ja) (すべて, subete), 全部 (ja) (ぜんぶ, zenbu), いずれも (izuremo), どれも (doremo)
Kabuverdianu: túdu
Korean: 모두 (ko) (modu), 모든 것 (modeun geot), 전부 (ko) (jeonbu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھەمو شتێک (hemu ştêk)
Latin: omnia (la) n pl, nihil non, omnes res f, totae res, quidvis, quidquid n, tota (la) n
Macedonian: се (se)
Malay: semuanya
Maltese: kollox
Marathi: सर्व (sarva)
Mbyá Guaraní: opa mba'e
Mòcheno: òlls
Nahuatl: nochi
Navajo: tʼáá ałtsoní
Norwegian: alt (no), allting (no)
Old English: eall, ǣlċ þing, eall þing pl, ǣġhwā
Persian: هر چیز (har čiz), همه‌چیز (hame-čiz)
Polish: wszystko (pl) n
Portuguese: tudo (pt) m
Romanian: tot (ro)
Russian: всё (ru) n (vsjo)
Scots: aathin
Scottish Gaelic: a h-uile rud, a h-uile càil, a h-uile sìon
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: све n
Roman: sve n
Slovak: všetko
Slovene: vse (sl)
Spanish: todo (es)
Swedish: allt (sv) n, alla (sv) c
Telugu: అన్నీ (te) (annī)
Thai: ทุกสิ่ง (túk-sìng), ทุกอย่าง (túk-yàang)
Tok Pisin: olgeta samting (tpi)
Turkish: her şey (tr), herşey (tr)
Ukrainian: усе́ (usé), все (uk) (vse)
Urdu: سب کچھ (sab kuch), سب (sab), ہر چیز
Venetan: tuto (vec)
Vietnamese: mọi vật, mọi thứ nào (every thing), tất cả (vi) (all)
Volapük: valikos (vo)
Welsh: popeth
Yámana: xanikina
Yiddish: אַלץ (alts), אַלצדינג (altsding) :

### Verb

everything (third-person singular simple present everythings, present participle everythinging, simple past and past participle everythinged)
* (ambitransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action. [from 19th c.]
** 1990, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, St. Martin's Press, page 107:‘Hardly. We’re screened by every shrink in the kingdom. We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged. Selection for security takes a lifetime—one of our sayings,’ she added modestly.
** 2001, Stanley Dance, The World of Swing, Da Capo Press, page 71:“ ‘You're right tonight, Boss Man,’ I said. ‘They’re laying it on us.’ “They outswung us, they out-everythinged us.
** 2007, Nancy Kennedy, Lipstick Grace, Multnomah Books, page 216:Charlie does, too. After being adopted by Joan, after having his matted coat shaved bare, after being dewormed and de-everythinged after being loved and fed and loved some more, Charlie has turned into a brand-new dog.
** 2018 November 12, Ann Crawford, chapter 3, in Fresh off the Starship‎, Lightscapes Publishing:She spends as much time as possible surfing (as she quickly learns it's called), Youtubing, Googling, everythinging to research these human be-things.

#### See also

* anything (verb)
* something (verb)