Associations to the word «Everyman»

Wiktionary

EVERYMAN, noun. In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.

Dictionary definition

EVERYMAN, noun. The ordinary person.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky