every
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
rhymes: -ɛvɹi
Forms: form: ev'ry
form: ivery
form: euery
form: e'ry
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ (“each and every”). By surface analysis, ever + each or ever + which.
Senses: examples: text: Every person in the room stood and cheered.
text: She watches my every move.
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
examples: text: We stopped for refreshments every ten miles.
text: The alarm is going off every few minutes.
text: Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
text: Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.
glosses: Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
examples: text: We wish you every happiness in the future.
text: He shows every sign of becoming an excellent player. I have every confidence in him.
text: There is every reason why we shouldn't.
text: The police will make every effort to trace the missing girl.
glosses: Denotes an abundance of something.
raw_tags: with certain nouns
Synonyms: each
Derived terms: a chicken in every pot
any and every
a sucker is born every minute
at church every time the doors are open
at church every time the doors swing open
at every turn
behind every great man is a great woman
behind every great man there stands a woman
behind every successful man there stands a woman
call someone every name in the book
down to every move on the board
each and every
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
every accusation is a confession
every bit
everybody
every body
every cloud has a silver lining
everycunt
every dark cloud has a silver lining
every-day
everyday
every day
every day is a school day
every day of the week
every day of the week and twice on Sunday
every day of the week and twice on Sundays
every dog has his day
every dog has its day
every dog must have his day
every dog must have its day
everydude
everyfur
everygirl
every good boy deserves favor
every good boy deserves favour
every good boy deserves food
every good boy deserves fudge
every good boy deserves fun
every good boy does fine
everyguy
every hour God sends
everyhow
every inch
every Jack has his Jill
everykid
every king needs a queen
every last
every law has a loophole
every law has its loophole
every little bit helps
every little helps
every man for himself
every man for hisself
every man has a price
every man has his price
every man is the architect of his own fortune
every man Jack
every man jack
every miller draws water to his own mill
everynight
every nook and corner
every nook and cranny
every now and again
every now and then
every old nook and cranny
every once in a while
every one
everyone
every other
everyplace
every point of the compass
everypony
every rose has a thorn
every rose has its thorn
every rule has an exception
every second
every shut eye isn't asleep
every silver lining has a cloud
every single
every single time
every so often
every stick has two ends
every thing
everything
every time
every time one farts
every time one turns around
every trick in the book
every way to Sunday
everywhen
everywhence
every where
everywhere
every which way
every which where
everywoman
every woman for herself
every woman Jill
fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
girl in every port
hang on every word
hang on someone's every word
how's every little thing
if I had a nickel for every time
in church every time the doors are open
in every sense of the word
in every way
it's not every day
know every trick in the book
make every effort
opportunity knocks at every man's door
put the same shoe on every foot
strain every nerve
the bride at every wedding
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
the corpse at every funeral
there are bad apples in every orchard
there are two sides to every question
there are two sides to every story
there is a lid for every pot
there is an exception to every rule
there's a grain of truth in every joke
there's a lid for every pot
there's a rotten apple in every barrel
there's a sucker born every minute
there's one born every minute
they'll do it every time
time heals every wound
turn with every wind
with every bone in one's body
with every breath
with every fiber of one's being
with every fibre of one's being
with every ounce of one's being
worth every penny
you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
you learn something new every day
Related terms: all
each
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