Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
- All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
- Every person in the room stood and cheered.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
- We stopped for refreshments every ten miles.
- The alarm is going off every few minutes.
- 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; that is, ten per cent of soldiers were killed.
- (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
- We wish you every happiness in the future.
- I have every confidence in him.
- There is every reason why we should not go.
- French: tout, chaque
- German: jeder, jede, jedes
- Italian: ogni
- Portuguese: cada, todo, toda
- Russian: ка́ждый
- Spanish: cada
Every
Proper noun
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