Every
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- All of a countable group, without exception.
- Every person in the room stood and cheered.
- Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
- Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue. The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
- Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.
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Etymology
From Middle English every, everich, which is made up of Old English ǣfre (“ever”) + ǣlċ (“each”). Furthermore, ǣfre itself comes from ā in fēore ("ever in life"), and ǣlċ from ā ġelīċ ("ever alike"). Thus equivalent to ever + each.
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Related terms
- each and every
- everybody
- every last
- everyman
- everyone
- every other
- everything
- everywhere
- every which way
- every which where
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