English Explanatory Dictionary

ev'ry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

det
  1. Contraction of every.

Pronunciation

/ɛvɹi/

Word forms

ev'ry

Etymology

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.

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