What is the difference between anybody and everybody?
anybody | everybody | Related terms |
Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
(informal) A person of some consideration or standing.
All people.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody' s exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figureāa glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
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*:When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo) / And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
Everybody is a related term of anybody.
As pronouns the difference between anybody and everybody
is that anybody is any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person while everybody is all people.anybody
English
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Anybody will do.
- Is there anybody inside?
- Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.
- Here one isn't anybody , if one doesn't dance like Travolta.