anyone

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(ĕn'ē-wŭn', -wən) pronunciation
pron.
Any person.

USAGE NOTE   The one-word form anyone is used to mean "any person." The two-word form any one is used to mean "whatever one (person or thing) of a group." Anyone may join means that admission is open to everybody. Any one may join means that admission is open to one person only. When followed by of, only any one can be used: Any one (not anyone) of the boys could carry it by himself.Anyone is often used in place of everyone in sentences like She is the most thrifty person of anyone I know. In an earlier survey 64 percent of the Usage Panel found this sentence unacceptable in writing. • Anyone and anybody are singular terms and always take a singular verb. See Usage Notes at they.


sign description: Combination sign: ANY and ONE. The A handshape is held with the thumb up, twists down and goes outward. The sign for ONE is then formed with the index finger pointing up.




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Dansk (Danish)
pron. - hver enkelt, enhver, alle

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    umuligt at spå om, umuligt at forudse, vanskeligt at sige, kan blive til hvad som helst

Nederlands (Dutch)
iemand, wie dan ook, belangrijk iemand

Français (French)
pron. - n'importe qui, quiconque, quelqu'un, personne, qui, un autre

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    allez donc savoir, pas la moindre idée ?

Deutsch (German)
pron. - jeder, jeder beliebige, irgend jemand, jemand

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    niemand weiß es

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - κανένας, καθένας, όλοι, οποιοσδήποτε

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    (καθομ.) πράγμα τελείως αβέβαιο

Italiano (Italian)
chiunque, qualcuno

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    una congettura

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - qualquer um, alguém

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    palpite (m) de alguém

Русский (Russian)
кто-нибудь, кто-то, всякий, любой

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    что-то, о чем нельзя знать наверняка

Español (Spanish)
pron. - cualquiera, quienquiera, alguien, nadie, alguno

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    quién sabrá

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - någon, vem som helst

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
谁, 任何人, 无论谁, 无论哪个人

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    任一推测, 谁也拿不准的事, 谁知道, 不能确定

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 誰, 任何人, 無論誰, 無論哪個人

idioms:

  • anyone's guess    任一推測, 誰也拿不準的事, 誰知道, 不能確定

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 누군가, 아무도

日本語 (Japanese)
pron. - だれか, だれも, だれでも

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) أي شخص, أي انسان‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮כל אחד, מישהו‬


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