Every

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1 English 1.1 Determiner 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Antonyms 1.1.3 Related terms 1.1.4 Translations 1.2 See also

English

Determiner

every

1. All of a countable group, without exception.

   Every person in the room stood and cheered.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• each

Antonyms

• no

Related terms

• everybody
• everyman
• everyone
• everything
• everywhere
• every last
• every other
• every which way
• each and every

Translations

• Dutch: ieder , iedere , elk, elke
• French: chaque
• Finnish: jokainen (1), kaikki (1), joka (2)
• Ido: omna

  毎 (まい, mai)

• Slovak: každý m, každá f, každé n
• Spanish: cada
• Turkish: her, her bir

See also

• all
• each