anyone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/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
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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; […].”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English eny on, ony one, equivalent to any + one.
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