Everyman

[ev-ree-man] / ˈɛv riˌmæn /

NOUN

everyone

Synonyms

STRONGEST

anybody everybody people

WEAK

each one each person every one every person generality masses populace the public the whole voters

Antonyms

WEAK

no one nobody

NOUN

John Doe

Synonyms

WEAK

Jane Doe Joe Blow Joe Doakes Joe Sixpack John Q. Public John Smith Mr Brown Mr. Nobody Richard Roe average Joe average person common man man in the street ordinary Joe

NOUN

lowest common denominator

Synonyms

WEAK

Joe Blow least common denominator

NOUN

man in the street

Synonyms

WEAK

John Doe Mr. Average average Joe ordinary citizen

NOUN

ragtag and bobtail

Synonyms

WEAK

canaille common ruck lowest social class rabble ragtag rank and file riffraff

NOUN

third estate

Synonyms

WEAK

Everywoman bourgeoisie citizen civilian commonality commoner crowd hoi polloi masses middle classes mob peasant pleb plebeian populace public ruck vulgus

NOUN

Tom, Dick, and Harry

Synonyms

WEAK

Everywoman anybody at all plain folks ragtag and bobtail rank and file

Example Sentences

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Berenger, a character who appears in different guises in several of his plays, is Ionesco’s version of Everyman.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

After a loss, the grieving Everyman finds no option but to keep living—he is, as one character says, “just waiting to see what we’ve been left here for.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels built their two-dimensional Texas Everyman to ensure we could never quite be certain.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025

On Sunday at the Everyman theatre in nearby Cheltenham, she was in conversation with broadcaster Richard Bacon, who asked whether reports that she moved because of Donald Trump were correct.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Everyman

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