every

/ˈɛvəri/

/ˈɛvri/

Use the adjective every to talk about all examples of something or all the members of a group. If you invite every classmate to your party, you're asking all 30 of them to come.

When you plan a trip to visit every national park in the US, you are intending to travel to 59 different parks — all of them. When you talk about time, you can also use every to explain how often an event occurs: "I've been waking up every hour lately." Every was originally a contraction of æfre ælc, "each of a group" or "ever each" in Old English.

Definitions of every

1. adjective

   (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
   “every person is mortal”

   “every party is welcome”

   “had every hope of success”

   “every chance of winning”

   synonyms:

   all

   quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
2. adjective

   each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
   “every third seat”

   “every two hours”

   synonyms:

   all

   quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class