Meanings
- Every, without any exceptions. (used for emphasis)
"[...] you must take turns in writing to me, children!" "Every single day, mother!" "Every single thing that happens."
1911, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens2 more examples
“Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape. “We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBNSybil had picked armfuls of lilies and daisies and roses from the garden and every single gladiolus, gathering them in the earliest morning when they were fresh and packing them carefully into an applebox on the carrier of her bike.
2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 104Synonyms: every last, each and every
Synonyms & antonyms
determinerEvery, without any exceptions. (used for emphasis)
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every single. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/every%20single
“every single.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/every%20single. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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