anyone

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/
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/ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/ · /ˈæ.niˌwʌn/ · /ˈɛ.ni.wʌn/ (US)

Definition of anyone

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

pron

  1. Any person; anybody.
    “Almost anyone can change a light bulb.”
    “The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    ““[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]””
    “It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].”

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Etymology

From Middle English eny on, ony one, equivalent to any + one.

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