every
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[edit] English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| many | work | too | #127: every | think | life | went |
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[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɛv.ɹɪ/, SAMPA: /"Ev.rI/
- (US) IPA: /ˈɛv.ɹi/, SAMPA: /"Ev.ri/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Hyphenation: ev·ery
[edit] Determiner
every
- 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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[edit] Related terms
- each and every
- everybody
- every last
- everyone
- every other
- everything
- everywhere
- every which way
- every which where
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