Definition of Everyman

1. Noun. The ordinary person.

Generic synonyms: Common Man, Common Person, Commoner

Definition of Everyman

1. Noun. In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Everyman

1. the typical or ordinary man [n EVERYMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Everyman

everybody's
everybody and his cousin
everybody and his mother
everybody and their brother
everybody and their dog
everybuddy
everyday
everydayness
everydaynesses
everydays
everydude
everydudes
everyguy
everyguys
everyhow
everyman (current term)
everyman's right
everymen
everyone
everyone and his brother
everyone and his mother
everyone and their brother
everyone and their dog
everyone and their mother
everyone else
everyplace
everythin'
everything
everything and the kitchen sink
everything but the kitchen sink

Literary usage of Everyman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"everyman Therefore I come to you my moan to make I pray you, that ye will go ... everyman ( )ur Lord Jesus help me, For one letter herein can I not see. ..."

2. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"Of the characters, God is individual, with nothing of the typical or abstract about him, everyman is a highly universalized type, Friendship, ..."

3. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1910)
"everyman, I wyll after Strength be gone; As for me, I will leve you alone. ... Nay, everyman, I wyll byde with the; I wyll not forsake the in dede. ..."

4. The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory by William Roy Mackenzie (1914)
"... The Pryde of Lyfe and everyman, though it appears in The Castle of Perseverance, 1 that great storehouse of Morality motives, and also in the nineteenth ..."

5. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"The summoning of everyman ' called it is, That of our lives and ending shows How transitory we be all day. This matter is wondrous precious, But the intent ..."

6. English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre by Alfred William Pollard (1904)
"everyman. The play of everyman is perhaps the finest of all the Morality Plays ... Like the Castell of Perseverance, the play of everyman was written to ..."

7. New ideals in business, an account of their practice and their effects upon by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916)
"CHAPTER IV HEALTH FOR everyman Very like the safety movement in genesis, ... Its slogan is Health for everyman. Like the safety movement it wars on evils ..."

8. Alphabetical Finding List by Princeton University Library (1921)
"i.l906 "everyman" with other interlude», including eight miracle play«. Load. ... everyman'« library; ed. by E. Rhys: Poetry and the drama, [Lonu. ..."

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