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everything
[ ev-ree-thing ]
pronoun
- every single thing or every particular of an aggregate or total; all.
- something extremely important:
This news means everything to us.
noun
- something that is extremely or most important:
Money is his everything.
everything
/ ˈɛɪθɪŋ /
pronoun
- the entirety of a specified or implied class
she lost everything in the War
- a great deal, esp of something very important
she means everything to me
Word History and Origins
Origin of everything1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with everything , also see hold everything .Example Sentences
President Daniel Noboa said he had deployed all government ministers to the province to coordinate the installation of shelters, deliver humanitarian aid kits and "assist with everything our people need".
She told the High Court she would do "anything and everything" for her, adding "I see her as my child".
Everything about Banana Cake brings my backward glances into focus with the passing years drawing out the spaces in between the things that shook, uprooted, and sent me hurtling in a new direction.
"Everything is on the table, our food system, our water, our air, different ways of parenting, all the kind of changes that may have triggered this epidemic," Kennedy later told Fox News.
“That’s when I realized someone was inside. I tried to break the window, but it wouldn’t give. Then I saw one of the windows was cracked just enough and we used everything we had to bend it to pull him out. The car was on fire. We just knew we had to get him out.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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