TKG English Learner's Dictionary

everyone

everyonepronoun

American /ˈɛv.riˌwʌn/ British /ˈev.riˌwʌn/ The strongest stress is on the first part: EV-ree-wun.
very commondefining vocabulary

  1. every person in a group; all the people

    Everyone takes a singular verb even though it means many people: everyone is here, not are.

    Collocations

    phrase everyone else, everyone knows

    Synonyms everybody

    For translators (sense 1)

    Meaning across languages Everyone covers only people; for things, use everything, and for a mix of people and things, many languages have one word where English needs two.

Word family

Usage

Everyone and everybody mean the same thing and can normally replace each other; everyone is more common in writing. Every one (written as two words), often followed by of, points to each single member of a group and can be used for things as well as people: every one of the plates was broken.

Common mistakes

Everyone have finished. Everyone has finished.
Everyone is grammatically singular and takes a singular verb.