anyone

See also: any one

English

Alternative forms

• any one (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English eny on, ony one, equivalent to any +‎ one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛniˌwʌn/, /ˈæniˌwʌn/

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Pronoun

anyone

1. Any person; anybody.

   Almost anyone can change a light bulb.

   • 1891, George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism:

     The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 8, in Death on the Centre Court:

     “[…] 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. […]”

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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; […].

Synonyms

• anybody

Related terms

terms related to anyone

• anything
• anywhere
• no one
• nobody
• everybody
• everyone
• somebody
• someone

Translations

anybody

Arabic: Moroccan Arabic: أي واحد (ʔayy wāḥed), أي حد (ʔayy ḥadd) Armenian: ամեն մեկը (amen mekə), որևէ մեկը (orewē mekə) Basque: edonor Belarusian: хто-не́будзь (xto-njébudzʹ), (in negative sentences) ніхто́ (nixtó), абы-хто́ (aby-xtó) Bulgarian: все́ки (vséki), ня́кой (njákoj), ко́йто и да е (kójto i da e) Catalan: qualsevol, tothom (ca), (questions) algú (ca), (negative) ningú (ca) Chamicuro: ana'shanaye Chinese: Mandarin: 何人 (zh) (hérén) Czech: kdokoliv (cs) Danish: nogen (da), hvemsomhelst Dutch: iemand (nl), wie dan ook, eenieder (nl) Esperanto: iu (eo), iu ajn Estonian: keegi (et), igaüks (et) Finnish: joku (fi), kuka tahansa (affirmative), ketään (interrogative) French: quelqu’un (fr) m, quelqu’une (fr) f, n’importe qui (fr), personne (fr) Georgian: ვინმე (vinme), ნებისმიერი (nebismieri) German: jemand (de), wer (de) (colloquial), irgendjemand (de), irgendwer (de) Hebrew: אף אחד (áf ekhád) (negative), מישהו (mishehú) (positive) Hungarian: bárki (hu), akárki (hu) Icelandic: einhver (is) Ido: irgu (io) Irish: aon duine Italian: chiunque (it) Japanese: 誰も (だれも, dare mo) (used with affirmative verbs) 誰でも (だれでも, dare de mo) Kapampangan: ninuman, ninumo Korean: 아무 (ko) (amu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کەس (kes), ھەرچیکەس (herçîkes), ھەرکەس (herkes) Latin: quisquam (la) Malay: Jawi: سياڤا٢, سسياڤا Rumi: siapa-siapa, sesiapa (ms) Maore Comorian: (in negative sentences) ata mutru Marathi: कोणीही (koṇīhī) Mari: Eastern Mari: кӧ (kö) Ngazidja Comorian: mndru class 1, mdzima class 1 (in negative sentences) Norwegian: noen (no), enhver (no), hvem som helst Old English: ǣniġ mann, man (ang), hwā Persian: کسی (fa) (kasi) Polish: ktokolwiek (pl), kto bądź, byle kto (pl) Portuguese: alguém (pt) m, alguma (pt) f, qualquer (pt) m or f, quaisquer (pt) m pl or f pl, qualquer um Romanian: oricine (ro) Russian: вся́кий (ru) m (vsjákij), любо́й (ru) (ljubój), кто уго́дно (kto ugódno), кто бы то ни́ было (kto by to ní bylo), никто́ (ru) (niktó) (in negative sentences), кто́-нибу́дь (ru) (któ-nibúdʹ) (interrogative), кто́-либо (ru) (któ-libo), кто уго́дно (kto ugódno) Scottish Gaelic: duine sam bith Serbo-Croatian: bilotko, itko, tkogod Slovene: kdorkoli (sl) Spanish: cualquiera (es), quien (es), alguien (es) Swedish: någon (sv), vem som helst (sv), (vem som) Tagalog: sinuman, balana Telugu: ఎవరైనా (te) (evarainā) Ukrainian: хто-не́будь (uk) (xto-nébudʹ), (in negative sentences) ніхто́ (uk) (nixtó), будь-хто (uk) (budʹ-xto), будь-яки́й (uk) (budʹ-jakýj) Vietnamese: ai (vi), người ta (vi) West Frisian: immen Yoruba: ẹnikẹ́ni