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Merriam Webster's

pronoun Date: 14th century 1. a. all that exists b. all that relates to the subject 2. all that is important <you mean everything to me> 3. all sorts of other things — used to indicate related but unspecified events, facts, or conditions <all the pains and colds and everything — E. B. White>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

pron. 1 all things; all the things of a group or class. 2 colloq. a great deal (gave me everything). 3 an essential consideration (speed is everything). Phrases and idioms: have everything colloq. possess all the desired attributes etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Everything Ev"er*y*thing`, n. Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. --Pope.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use everything to refer to all the objects, actions, activities, or facts in a particular situation. He'd gone to Seattle long after everything else in his life had changed... Early in the morning, hikers pack everything that they will need for the day's hike... ? nothing PRON: oft PRON else 2. You use everything to refer to all possible or likely actions, activities, or situations. 'This should have been decided long before now.'—'We can't think of everything.'... Noel and I do everything together... Are you doing everything possible to reduce your budget? PRON 3. You use everything to refer to a whole situation or to life in general. She says everything is going smoothly... Is everything all right?... Everything's going to be just fine. PRON 4. If you say that someone or something is everything, you mean you consider them to be the most important thing in your life, or the most important thing that there is. I love him. He is everything to me... Money isn't everything. ? nothing PRON: oft PRON to n 5. If you say that someone or something has everything, you mean they have all the things or qualities that most people consider to be desirable. She has everything: beauty, talent, children... PRON

Moby Thesaurus

A to Z, A to izzard, aggregate, all, all and sundry, alpha and omega, assemblage, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, complement, each and every, length and breadth, one and all, package, package deal, set, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range