anyone
/ˈɛnɪwʌn
/pronoun
1 [usually with negative or in questions] Any person or people: there wasn’t anyone there does anyone remember him? I was afraid to tell anyone...
- If anyone remembers him or knew him, I would be very glad to hear from you as soon as possible.
- If anyone has this piece, or remembers it better than me, feel free to put me right on this one.
- My only hope is I can scrape through Christmas unscathed and not upset anyone too much.
1.1 [without negative] Used for emphasis: anyone could do it...
- It is a shame it has to come to that before anyone realises how dangerous this road is.
- Suffice it to say that Waugh might have trouble getting anyone to print his story today.
- The danger now is that anyone who wants to change society will run a mile from active politics.
2A person of importance or authority: they are read by anyone who’s anyone...
- Anyone who's anyone in the industry will be there!
- Over the years, anyone who's anyone in the game has dropped by to play a round or two in the city.
Usage
The two-word form any one is not the same as the one-word form anyone and the two forms cannot be used interchangeably. Any one means ‘any single (person or thing)’, as in: not more than twelve new members are admitted in any one year.
Phrases
be anyone's
anyone's game
- recollectedness
- recollection
- recollective
- Recollet
- recollocate
- recolonise
- recolonization
- recolonize
- recolor
- recolour
- recombinable
- recombinant
- recombinant DNA
- recombinase
- recombination
- recombinational
- recombinationally
- recombinationless
- recombination line
- recombine
- recombinogenic
- recomember
- recomforting
- recommand
- recommence