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everybody Definition

every·body (ev′rē bäd′ē, -bud′ē)

every person; everyone

everybody Synonyms

everybody

pron.

everyone, every person, each one, every one, each and every one, all, one and all, all and sundry, the public, the whole world, tout le monde (French), old and young; men, women, and children; the people, the populace, the voters, society, generality, anybody, all sorts, the masses, the man, in the street, Everyman, Everywoman, every man jack, whoever, you and I*, John Q. Public*, Jane Q. Public*, the devil and all*, the hoi polloi*, every Tom, Dick*, and Harry*; see also all, man 1.

Antonyms nobody*, no one*, not a one.

everybody Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • thank: We would like to thank everybody who has emailed us with their best wishes.
  • remind: We do wish to use this opportunity to remind everybody to drink sensibly.
  • tell: You may wish to tell everybody about your own site, or some of your favorite Country Music sites.
  • think: Everyone thinks everybody else has more money than them.
  • congratulate: Then in September, First Minister Jack McConnell wrote to congratulate everybody involved in the project.
  • involve: We attempt to enter almost everybody involved in this event.

Adjective modifier

  • sure: Make sure everybody knows where you are carrying the object to.

Modifies a noun

  • else: What is right for you is also right for me ( and everybody else ).
  • win: Now you would think this was bad news for the Museum shop but sales stands encourage more enthusiasts so everybody wins.

Noun used with modifier

  • days--before: There was, in the old days--before everybody married by machinery--something not altogether unworthy in being a siren, wasn't there?
  • hello: Ahotz says, " hi all " Franco says, " hello everybody " Paolo finds its way in.
  • hi: Listening to: banana man -- unknown hi everybody!
  • suit: At St Albans lodge we have rooms to suit everybody 's tastes.

Possessives

  • lip: Yes, the big question on everybody's lips is ' Can Gordon Brown really become Prime Minister?
  • taste: At St Albans lodge we have rooms to suit everybody's tastes.
  • satisfaction: I'm pleased that you've managed to sort this out to everybody's satisfaction.
  • expectation: That sort of thing just raises everybody's expectations.
  • attention: The decision to have a notional NMD architecture to talk with the Russians about commanded everybody ' attention.
  • mind: The Housing Support Bill was debated in the Chamber on Tuesday, so it will be fresh in everybody's minds.

Preposition: by

  • surprise: This took everybody by surprise, not least me.
everybody Quotes

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.

—Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

—Stipe, Michael

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Stein, Gertrude

'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'

—Shaw, George Bernard

Everybody lies about sex. People lie during sex. If it weren't for lies, there'd be no sex.

—Seinfeld,Jerry

Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

—Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, becausethey had once belonged somewhere.That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

—Stein, Gertrude

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

—Smuts,Jan Christian

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

—Hutchins, Robert M

Browse dictionary entries near everybody

  1. ‹ every one
  2. ‹ every now and then
  3. ‹ every day
  4. ‹ every
  5. ‹ evertor
  6. ‹ evert
  7. ‹ eversion
  8. ‹ eversible
  9. ‹ evermore
  10. ‹ everlasting
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