everybody

(ĕv'rē-bŏd'ē, -bŭd'ē)
pron.
Every person; everyone.

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has been written as one word since the 19th century, and alternates with everyone with no difference in meaning. Both words take a singular verb, but pronouns in the continuation of the sentence are often plural to denote neutrality of gender:

Everybody seems to recover their spirits—Ruskin, 1866

Everybody has a right to describe their own party machine as they choose—Winston Churchill, 1954

'There's a bus waiting outside the terminal to take everybody to their hotels,' said Linda—David Lodge, 1991.

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IN BRIEF: All people within a given group of people.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. — George Patton (1885-1945).

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See words rhyming with "everybody."

Dansk (Danish)
pron. - enhver, alle

Nederlands (Dutch)
iedereen, elk

Français (French)
pron. - tout le monde, chacun

Deutsch (German)
pron. - jeder

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - καθένας, όλοι, οι πάντες

Italiano (Italian)
ciascuno, tutti

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - todos, cada pessoa

Русский (Russian)
все, каждый, всякий

Español (Spanish)
pron. - todo el mundo, todos, cada uno

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - var och en, alla

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
每个人, 各人, 人人

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 每個人, 各人, 人人

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 누구든지 모두

日本語 (Japanese)
pron. - 誰もかれも, だれでも

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) كل شخص‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮כל אחד, כל אדם, הכל‬

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