every meaning
EN[ˈɛv.ɹi] [ˈɛv.ə.ɹi]US
WEvery
- 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
- He's shown he cares by asking about you every time he sees me.
- People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
- I walk two miles to school every day. The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Every Christmas, my mother makes fruitcakes for Africa.
- Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
- Every morning he powered up his electronic devices, even before making coffee.
- 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