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Everywhere vs Anywhere - What's the difference?

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Anywhere is a related term of everywhere.



As adverbs the difference between everywhere and anywhere

is that everywhere is in or to all locations under discussion while anywhere is in or at any location or an unknown location.

As a pronoun anywhere is

any location or an unknown location.

everywhere

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In or to all locations under discussion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere . From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
  • (colloquial) In or to a few or more locations.
  • Antonyms

    * nowhere

    Derived terms

    * almost everywhere * everywhere else

    anywhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In or at any location or an unknown location.
  • I don't know where I left my keys. They could be anywhere .
    I'd rather be anywhere else.
  • To (in the direction of) any location or an unknown location.
  • Anywhere you go in France, there will be bread and wine with dinner .
    I'm staying home today. I'm not going anywhere .
    Are you going anywhere special this weekend?

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Any location or an unknown location.
  • Anywhere is better than here!
    English compound determinatives