different between someone vs everyone

English

Etymology

some + one

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?mw?n/
• Hyphenation: some?one

Pronoun

someone

1. Some person.

   Can someone help me, please?

Usage notes

• Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation.

  Did anyone help with the clean-up effort?

  Yes, someone helped yesterday, but no one did today because everyone was too busy.

Synonyms

• anybody, anyone, somebody

Abbreviations

Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o. or so for someone.

Translations

Noun

someone (plural someones)

1. A partially specified but unnamed person.

   Do you need a gift for that special someone?

   • 2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press ?ISBN, page 213

     His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.

   • year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com ?ISBN, page 2

     It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.

   • 2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     Or rather, to someone. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.

3. an important person

Related terms

• no one
• everyone
• anyone
• somewhere
• something

Anagrams

• neosome, onesome

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