noun every (preceding a singular noun) used to refer to all the individual members of a set without exception. 1
abbreviation EVERY each 1
adjective every at intervals of 1
adjective every all potential 1
determiner every You use every to indicate that you are referring to all the members of a group or all the parts of something and not only some of them. 0
determiner every Every is also an adjective. 0
determiner every You use every in order to say how often something happens or to indicate that something happens at regular intervals. 0
determiner every You use every in front of a number when you are saying what proportion of people or things something happens to or applies to. 0
determiner every You can use every before some nouns, for example 'sign', 'effort', 'reason', and 'intention' in order to emphasize what you are saying. 0
adjective every If you say that someone's every whim, wish, or desire will be satisfied, you are emphasizing that everything they want will happen or be provided. 0
determiner every each one (of the class specified), without exception 0
determiner every the greatest or best possible 0
determiner every each: used before a noun phrase to indicate the recurrent, intermittent, or serial nature of a thing 0
adjective every each, individually and separately; each, and including all 0
adjective every the fullest possible; all that there could be 0
adjective every each group or interval (a specified number or time) 0
determiner every All of a countable group, without exception. 0
determiner every 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. 0
