everyone

pron

Etymology: An alteration of earlier everychone after every, from Middle English everichon. By surface analysis, every + one.

1. Every person.

   “She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. It was well I secured this forage; or both she, I and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one down stairs was too much engaged to think of us.”

   “Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.”