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every

det · name · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈev.(ə.)ɹi/
  • rhymes with -ɛvɹi
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 V ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: EH1 V R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

det

Meaning 1

All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Every person in the room stood and cheered.
  • She watches my every move.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

det

Meaning 2

Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

det

Meaning 3

Denotes an abundance of something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We wish you every happiness in the future.
  • He shows every sign of becoming an excellent player. I have every confidence in him.
  • There is every reason why we shouldn't.
  • The police will make every effort to trace the missing girl.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h2óyu Proto-Indo-European *-osinflu. Proto-Germanic *aiwaz Proto-West Germanic *aiwder. Old English ā Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Germanic *in Proto-West Germanic *in Old English in Proto-Indo-European *perkw- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *pérkus Proto-Germanic *ferhuzder.? Proto-Germanic *ferhwą Proto-West Germanic *ferh Old English feorh ? Old English ǣfre Proto-West Germanic *aiwgahwalīk Old English ǣġhwelċ Old English ǣlċ Middle English every English every Inherited from Middle English every, everich, everych, from Old English ǣfre ǣlċ, ǣfre ǣġhwelċ. By surface analysis, ever + each or ever + which.

Across languages

Translations

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: elke — all of a countable group
  • Ahom: 𑜀𑜥 (kū) — all of a countable group
  • Albanian: cilido — all of a countable group
  • Arabic: كُلّ (kull) — all of a countable group
  • Armenian: ամեն (amen) — all of a countable group
  • Asturian: cada — all of a countable group
  • Azerbaijani: hər — all of a countable group
  • Bashkir: һәр (hər) — all of a countable group
  • Belarusian: ко́жны (kóžny) — all of a countable group
  • Belarusian: уся́кі (usjáki) — all of a countable group
  • Bengali: প্রতি (proti) — all of a countable group
  • Bengali: হর (hor) — all of a countable group
  • Bengali: কুল (kul) — all of a countable group
  • Bengali: তামাম (tamam) — all of a countable group
  • Bengali: প্রত্যেক (prottek) — all of a countable group
  • Bulgarian: все́ки (vséki) — all of a countable group
  • Burmese: တိုင်း (tuing:) — all of a countable group
  • Catalan: cada — all of a countable group
  • Chechen: дерриг (derrig) — all of a countable group
  • Chinese Cantonese: 每 (mui5) — all of a countable group
  • Chinese: 逐 (zh-min-nan) — all of a countable group
  • Chinese: 每 (zh-min-nan) — all of a countable group
  • Chinese Mandarin: 每 (měi) — all of a countable group
  • Chinese Mandarin: 各 (gè) — all of a countable group
  • Mwali Comorian: kila — all of a countable group
  • Czech: každý — all of a countable group
  • Danish: hver — all of a countable group
  • Dutch: elk — all of a countable group
  • Dutch: ieder — all of a countable group
  • Esperanto: ĉiu — all of a countable group
  • Estonian: kõik — all of a countable group
  • Faroese: hvør — all of a countable group
  • Finnish: jokainen — all of a countable group
  • Finnish: joka — all of a countable group
  • Finnish: välein — all of a countable group
  • French: tout — all of a countable group
  • French: chaque — all of a countable group
  • Galician: toda — all of a countable group
  • Galician: todo — all of a countable group
  • Georgian: ყველა (q̇vela) — all of a countable group
  • Georgian: ყოველი (q̇oveli) — all of a countable group
  • German: jeder — all of a countable group
  • Greek: κάθε (káthe) — all of a countable group
  • Ancient Greek: ἕκαστος (hékastos) — all of a countable group
  • Haitian Creole: tout — all of a countable group
  • Haitian Creole: chak — all of a countable group
  • Hebrew: כֹּל (kol) — all of a countable group
  • Hindi: प्रत्येक (pratyek) — all of a countable group
  • Hindi: हर (har) — all of a countable group
  • Hungarian: minden — all of a countable group
  • Icelandic: sérhver — all of a countable group
  • Icelandic: hver — all of a countable group
  • Ido: omna — all of a countable group
  • Indonesian: setiap — all of a countable group
  • Ingrian: joka — all of a countable group
  • Ingrian: ikä — all of a countable group
  • Ingush: дерриг (derrig) — all of a countable group
  • Interlingua: cata — all of a countable group
  • Irish: gach — all of a countable group
  • Irish: gach uile — all of a countable group
  • Italian: ogni — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 凡ゆる (arayuru) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 全ての (subete no) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 其々 (sorezore) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 各々 (onoono) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: ...毎に (...goto ni) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 毎 (mai-) — all of a countable group
  • Japanese: 各 (kaku) — all of a countable group
  • Kabuverdianu: túdu — all of a countable group
  • Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿ (prati) — all of a countable group
  • Kazakh: әр (är) — all of a countable group
  • Kazakh: әрбір (ärbır) — all of a countable group
  • Kazakh: әркім (ärkım) — all of a countable group
  • Khmer: រាល់ (rŏəl) — all of a countable group
  • Korean: 각 (gak) — all of a countable group
  • Korean: 모든 (modeun) — all of a countable group
  • Korean: 매(每)- (mae-) — all of a countable group
  • Korean: -마다 (-mada) — all of a countable group
  • Central Kurdish: ھەمو (hemu) — all of a countable group
  • Kyrgyz: ар (ar) — all of a countable group
  • Lao: ທຸກ (thuk) — all of a countable group
  • Lao: ທຸກໆ (thuk thuk) — all of a countable group
  • Latin: quisque — all of a countable group
  • Latin: omnis — all of a countable group
  • Latvian: katrs — all of a countable group
  • Lithuanian: kiekvienas — all of a countable group
  • Macedonian: секој (sekoj) — all of a countable group
  • Malay: setiap — all of a countable group
  • Malay: tiap-tiap — all of a countable group
  • Malayalam: ഓരോ (ōrō) — all of a countable group
  • Maltese: kull — all of a countable group
  • Marshallese: wōtōm — all of a countable group
  • Mongolian: бүр (bür) — all of a countable group
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hver — all of a countable group
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar — all of a countable group
  • Old English: ǣlċ — all of a countable group
  • Pashto: هر (har) — all of a countable group
  • Pennsylvania German: jeder — all of a countable group
  • Dari: هَر (har) — all of a countable group
  • Iranian Persian: هَر (har) — all of a countable group
  • Polish: każdy — all of a countable group
  • Polish: wszelki — all of a countable group
  • Polish: wszelaki — all of a countable group
  • Portuguese: cada — all of a countable group
  • Portuguese: todo — all of a countable group
  • Portuguese: toda — all of a countable group
  • Quechua: tukuy — all of a countable group
  • Romani: sako — all of a countable group
  • Romani: saki — all of a countable group
  • Romani: sake — all of a countable group
  • Romanian: fiecare — all of a countable group
  • Russian: ка́ждый (káždyj) — all of a countable group
  • Russian: вся́кий (vsjákij) — all of a countable group
  • Sanskrit: सर्व (sárva) — all of a countable group
  • Sanskrit: विश्व (viśva) — all of a countable group
  • Scots: ivery — all of a countable group
  • Scottish Gaelic: a h-uile — all of a countable group
  • Serbo-Croatian: сва̏кӣ — all of a countable group
  • Serbo-Croatian: svȁkī — all of a countable group
  • Sikkimese: ཀུན (kun) — all of a countable group
  • Sinhalese: හැම (hæma) — all of a countable group
  • Slovak: každý — all of a countable group
  • Slovene: vsak — all of a countable group
  • Lower Sorbian: kuždy — all of a countable group
  • Spanish: cada — all of a countable group
  • Swahili: kila — all of a countable group
  • Swedish: varje (1.) — all of a countable group
  • Swedish: var (2.) — all of a countable group
  • Tajik: ҳар (har) — all of a countable group
  • Tamil: ஒவ்வொரு (ovvoru) — all of a countable group
  • Tatar: һәр (här) — all of a countable group
  • Tày: ăn — all of a countable group
  • Tày: táng — all of a countable group
  • Tày: mọi — all of a countable group
  • Telugu: ప్రతి (prati) — all of a countable group
  • Thai: ทุก (túk) — all of a countable group
  • Thai: ทุก ๆ (túk-túk) — all of a countable group
  • Tocharian B: po — all of a countable group
  • Turkish: her — all of a countable group
  • Turkmen: her — all of a countable group
  • Ukrainian: ко́жний (kóžnyj) — all of a countable group
  • Ukrainian: уся́кий (usjákyj) — all of a countable group
  • Ukrainian: всіля́кий (vsiljákyj) — all of a countable group
  • Urdu: ہَر (har) — all of a countable group
  • Uyghur: ھەر (her) — all of a countable group
  • Uzbek: har — all of a countable group
  • Vietnamese: mỗi — all of a countable group
  • Vietnamese: các — all of a countable group
  • Vietnamese: từng — all of a countable group
  • Volapük: alik — all of a countable group
  • Welsh: pob — all of a countable group
  • Yaghnobi: ҳар (har) — all of a countable group
  • Yiddish: יעדער (yeder) — all of a countable group
  • Zazaki: herg — all of a countable group
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