everyman

FREQ #40673

n. 普通人, 一般人

词形变化

everymen 复数 everymen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    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.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

commoner

词源

Perhaps from the Flemish play Elckerlijc (c. 1495) or its English translation Everyman (c. 1520).

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