Everyman
Americannoun
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(italics) a 15th-century English morality play.
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(usually lowercase) an ordinary person; the typical or average person.
pronoun
noun
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a medieval English morality play in which the central figure represents mankind, whose earthly destiny is dramatized from the Christian viewpoint
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(often not capital) the ordinary person; common man
Etymology
Origin of Everyman
Example Sentences
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Others, like Gramercy Tavern and Minetta Tavern in New York and the Blue Duck Tavern in Washington, D.C., have lost their everyman appeal, becoming impossible to get into and expensive to eat at.
"I wouldn't want to take away the everyman, working-class accessibility of the brand," he says.
From BBC
Speaking on his new memoir, which details the governor’s struggle with dyslexia, Newsom laid on an everyman schtick.
From Salon
Mr. Holmes, however, portrays Tennyson as a thoughtful Victorian everyman, caught between intellectual tradition and revolution, struggling to articulate the consensus of an exciting but uneasy new age.
“What interests me are everyman aspects of him. The banality of his evil and the way that evil actions seem to always rise out of fear and insecurity.”
From Los Angeles Times
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