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Definition of 'anyone'

English

Alternative forms

* any one

Pronoun

(en-pron)
  • Any person; anybody.
  • * (George Bernard Shaw)
  • The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
  • *{{quote-book|year=1935|author= George Goodchild
  • |title=Death on the Centre Court|chapter=8 |passage= “[…] 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. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-07|author=David Simpson
  • |volume=188|issue=26|page=36|magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) |title= Fantasy of navigation |passage=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; […].}}

    Synonyms

    * anybody

    Similar to 'anyone'

    anime, anomie, amine, amaine, ammine, amene, anemiae