pronoun

anyone

EN-ee-wun/ˈeniwʌn/

Any person at all.

The host offers refreshments to anyone who steps through the open doorway.

A host opens a doorway and offers a tray to a mixed crowd of strangers, welcoming whichever person steps forward first.

Etymology

Any leaves the choice unspecified, while one identifies an individual. Together they refer to a person without restricting who; the expression existed as two words long before becoming a single word.

In context

Moyers & Company22:57

And then he said this, "I'm just as patriotic as anyone."

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers

TED11:14

entirely online without anyone touching a piece of paper.

How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual | Haley Van Dyck

More examples

Did anyone call?
I do not know anyone here.
Ask anyone at the desk.

Forms

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