EVERY
What does "EVERY" mean?
Used to refer to all members of a group considered one by one.
Meanings
- Each one of a group, taken individually and without exception. Every seat in the theatre was taken.
- Used with intervals to indicate recurrence. The bus comes every ten minutes.
- All possible; the greatest possible degree of. She has every reason to be proud.
Word origin
From Old English 'æfre ælc', literally 'ever each', a doubled-up emphatic form that fused over time into 'every'.
Remember it
EVERY = 'ever' + the 'y' that points at each one: ever-y single thing.
A little poem
Not the crowd but the count-
one face, then one more face, then one,
until the word means all of them.
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Wordplay
- I told my class every cloud has a silver lining. One kid asked about the clouds made of debt.
What it teaches
Say 'every' and you promise no exceptions; the honest measure of a rule is the case you forgot.
Quick facts
What does EVERY mean?
Used to refer to all members of a group considered one by one.
Is EVERY a valid word?
Yes — EVERY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EVERY?
EVERY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EVERY come from?
From Old English 'æfre ælc', literally 'ever each', a doubled-up emphatic form that fused over time into 'every'.
What can EVERY teach us?
Say 'every' and you promise no exceptions; the honest measure of a rule is the case you forgot.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.