everybody

alternative arrybody · alternative pronunciation spelling e'rybody · alternative pronunciation spelling ever'body · alternative errbody · alternative pronunciation spelling everybuddy · alternative obsolete everbody · alternative obsolete every body

1. indefinitepronounEvery individual in a set; all people.

   Does everybody have their ticket(s) at hand?

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   Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   If you smile at me I will understand 'cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.

   1969, “Wooden Ships”, Paul Kantner, Stephen Stills (lyrics), David Crosby (music)

   Synonyms: everyone, tout le monde, all, all and sundry, everybody and his brother, everybody and their brother, everybody and his cousin, everybody and their cousin · Antonyms: nobody, no one