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单词 everywoman
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Everywomann.

Brit. /ˈɛvrᵻˌwʊmən/, U.S. /ˈɛv(ə)riˌwʊmən/
Inflections: Plural Everywomen.
Forms: see every adj. and pron. and woman n. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: every adj., woman n.
Etymology: < every adj. + woman n., after Everyman n.
An individual woman who in some way represents or symbolizes all women; (also) the ordinary or typical woman.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > ordinary or average woman
the woman in the street1831
Everywoman1903
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxviii As I sat watching Everyman at the Charterhouse, I said to myself Why not Everywoman? Ann was the result: every woman is not Ann; but Ann is Everywoman.
1904 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 18 June 414/1 He has an Everywoman. Ann Whitfield, the victorious heroine who so triumphantly incarnates the power of her sex.
1912 W. Browne & S. Phillips (title) Everywoman: her pilgrimage in quest of love.
1947 Times 6 June 8/4 Its compiler..paraphrases it in modern terms when..he remarks on its [sc. the book's] size that it must go into Everyman's pocket and Everywoman's handbag.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 18/4 We might somehow find richer satisfactions, not to say transcendences in The Inner Circle if it contained more complicated people than its Everymen and its Everywomen.
2002 Book Mar. 50/1 Take away all the millions she's earned through her gift, her craft, and she's basically as down-to-earth as she could be... An everywoman.
2011 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 25 Mar. d4/2 Elizabeth Taylor was the antithesis of today's Hollywood fashion icon, who is eager to be seen as an everywoman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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