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English
Etymology
Perhaps from the Flemish play Elckerlijc (c. 1495) or its English translation Everyman (c. 1520).
Noun
everyman (plural everymen)
- In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
- Coordinate terms: everywoman, everyboy, everygirl
- Near-synonyms: man on the street, John Q. Public (see more there)
- In the novels of John Updike, sometimes Rabbit is his own man, and sometimes he is everyman.
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