EVERYMEN Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

everymen

noun

plural of everyman

as in workers

an average or ordinary man despite his superstar status, in his movies the actor is able to play the role of an everyman quite convincingly

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Recent Examples of everymen In a World Cup boasting a galaxy of stars, a lunch-bucket team of blue-collar everymen may wind up outshining them all. — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 The 50th anniversary of his Game 7 heroics was marked in 2010 by the unveiling — on Bill Mazeroski Way — of a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest everymen, rounding the bases, on top of the world. — ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for everymen

Noun

But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task broader than resolving a dispute over university admissions.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Also according to the emergency service, consecutive Russian strikes on a shopping center in Kharkiv injured four people late on Saturday, including three rescue workers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of workers

Noun

Earlier movie versions have managed the story’s most frightening moments with the limited technology available at the time—much plastic and spongy stuff; monsters in process shots looming over little men; papier-mâché boulders flung from hilltops.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Boarding school has been making Muck boys into ugly, priggish little men for generations.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of little men

Noun

Her philanthropic activities extended far beyond her own community to include Indigenous inmates, Chinese immigrants, and white laborers, along with countless other Angelenos.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
In the previous decades, Japan had brought in many Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese laborers, often under duress, to work in factories and mines, usually in atrocious conditions.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026