every meaning
EN[ˈɛv.ɹi] [ˈɛv.ə.ɹi]US
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- Every may refer to:
- Every (surname) (for people with the name Every)
- Suzuki Every, a kei truck produced by Japanese automaker Suzuki
- every, a determiner in the English language
EN Every
- DeterminerSUF-ery
- 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.
- All of a countable group, without exception.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius.
- Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.
- Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. — Swift.
- Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- Every Christmas, my mother makes fruitcakes for Africa.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of every in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Determiners
- Determiners
- en everything
- en everywhere
- en everybody
- en everyone
- en everyday
Source: Wiktionary