anyone

pronountop 1 000 in film dialogue

United States//ˈɛ.ni.wʌn//
//ˈɛ.niˌwʌn//
//ˈæ.niˌwʌn//

Any person; anybody.

pronoun

1
Any person; anybody.
Almost anyone can change a light bulb.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
“[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

Etymology

From Middle English eny on, ony one. By surface analysis, any + one.

Anya · A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, of modern…anybody · Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any…anyhow · In any way or manner whatever.

anyone · Any person; anybody.

anyplace · At a non-specific place; anywhere.anything · Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of…anytime · At any time.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.