different between everyone vs anybody

English

Alternative forms

• arrywun (Bermuda)

Etymology

From Middle English everichon, equivalent to every +? one.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??v.?i.w?n/

Pronoun

everyone

1. Every person.
   • 1847 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVII

     It was well I secured this forage […] ; everyone downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.

   • 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, "An Encounter"

     Everyone's heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hello, everyone!

Usage notes

• Everyone takes a singular verb: Is everyone here?; Everyone has heard of it. However, similar to what occurs with collective or group nouns like crowd or team, sometimes a plural pronoun refers back to everyone which is also reflected in verb conjugations: Everyone was laughing at first, but then they all stopped. / Everyone has a smart phone nowadays, don't they?

Synonyms

• (every person): everybody, the world and his wife

Antonyms

• (every person): no one

Derived terms

• everyone and their brother
• everyone else

Related terms

• no one
• someone
• anyone
• everywhere
• everything

Translations

References

• everyone at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.i.b?d.i/, /??n.i.b?.di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.i.b?d.i/, /??n.i.b?.di/, /??n.i.b?.di/

Pronoun

anybody

1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

2. (informal) A person of some consideration or standing.

Synonyms

• anyone

Derived terms

• anybody who is anybody
• everybody who is anybody

Related terms

• nobody
• everybody
• somebody
• anywhere
• anything
• anyhow

Translations