Everywhere

How to spell everywhere

10 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce everywhere

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What does everywhere mean?

1. adverbIn or to every place; in all locations.

Everywhere in a sentence

• After the party there were crumbs everywhere on the carpet.

• She searched everywhere in the house for her missing keys.

Where does everywhere come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

Everywhere is a native English compound, built straightforwardly from 'every' and 'where', both of which trace back to Old English. The first element grew from the Old English phrase 'aefre aelc', literally 'ever each', which over time fused into the single word 'every', meaning 'each one without exception'. The second element 'where' descends from Old English 'hwaer', the question and place word meaning 'in or at what location', related to 'who' and 'what'. The two were joined in the medieval period to mean 'in every place', and the pattern matches its siblings 'somewhere', 'nowhere', and 'anywhere'. The spelling trap is purely that it is written as one solid word, with the 'every' kept whole even though we say it with the middle vowel almost swallowed.

How the word is built

• every (each one)
• -where (in/at what place)