# everything

Pronunciation: say "EV-ree-thing" /ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/

## Pronoun

1. All things, or all the things in a particular group or situation; often used loosely to mean a great many things.
   - Simple: All things, or all the things you are talking about. People also say it to mean very many things.
   - _After the meeting, the team reviewed everything that had been proposed._
   - _The movers carefully loaded everything from the apartment into the truck._
2. The general state of things; all the parts of someone's life or affairs taken together. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: How things are going in general, or all the parts of someone's life.
   - _Once the test results came back clear, everything felt right again._
   - _He kept telling himself everything would be all right by morning._
3. The thing that matters more than anything else to someone. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The thing that matters most to someone.
   - _To him, his music is everything, and he practices for hours each day._
   - _Money isn't everything, as her grandfather often reminded her._
4. All of one's effort and energy, given fully to a task or goal. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: All the effort and energy someone can give.
   - _The climbers gave everything on the last stretch to the summit._
   - _She poured everything into rebuilding the family business after the fire._

## Other meanings

- (verb) Used loosely in place of a set of related verbs, or of any action at all, to stand for doing all of them.

## Origin

From Middle English "every thing," formed by the univerbation (joining into one word) of "every" and "thing."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/everything (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).