everyman
In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the…In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
Meaning
1 sensesIn fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
Near-synonyms: man on the street, John Q. Public (see more there)
In the novels of John Updike, sometimes Rabbit is his own man, and sometimes he is everyman.
- the ordinary person
Origin
Perhaps from the Flemish play Elckerlijc (c. 1495) or its English translation Everyman (c.Perhaps from the Flemish play Elckerlijc (c. 1495) or its English translation Everyman (c. 1520).
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Forms
plural: everymenSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.