Everyman

Word EVERYMAN
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Everyman"

What do we mean by everyman?

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

-An ordinary person or character who overcomes extraordinary odds and circumstances to reach his goal; -To overcome something impossible or challenging. (Coined as a verb from backloggery.com); -Something shouted or cheered when a gamer is in a tight spot in his game, as a sort of audible good luck charm for the player. (Also coined from backloggery.com) Urban Dictionary

An everyman is an everyday person who accomplishes an extraordinary task. This can be destroying a single army armed only with bare hands or a pistol. Urban Dictionary

Everyman is a human-shaped figure spawned from Reaper Bird that his head is eaten by butterflies. Poor Everyman. Urban Dictionary

A band that rights basic and generic songs that pretty much everyone and anyone can relate too. Usually found in the pop/rock catergory. Can be used positivley or negativley. Urban Dictionary

A character that the Cabbie Homicide author coined when he does metafiction and real person fiction at his own expense as he does the style known as Real Person Horror (there are rules in the form as don't kill the real person off because they might have a sick fuck inspired by this. See stalker as those who are MarySue might wonder if this is a variation of the development. The character is usually had some college or self-educated (ie attended a community college) and well versed in unexplored subject matter as the roots come from Western Philosophy. As this is often stems from the roots of Amateur Sleth and Philosophical literature; as it's an archtype drawn from problem novels and modeled after Wes Craven's research for material sometimes coming up with subject matter from the same source material but not plagiarism. The character is modeled from Richard Matheson's horror output as he uses real places and real neighborhoods -- a variation of the badass normal coined by TVTropes. The character is a blue collar but transplanted into academia as the origins come from GlendaleHeights and CarolStream. Such characters are a combination of book and street smart as the character is common with urban fiction. Urban Dictionary

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The word "everyman" in example sentences

As the antagonist of myth may also be a god, as myth deals with, in effect, a society of gods, so in legend the value of everyman is shifted up to demigod. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

The everyman is dealing with the duties that any human being might, and doing so with a weaker will. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Or, possibly, the $4.50 gasoline price has absorbed every available erg of populist anger, or -- yet another possibility -- today's financial failures are too complex to stick in everyman's craw. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We've tried the entitled everyman legacy admission President with disastrous results. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The one where the nebbish everyman is on one side of the modesty barrier and his bevy of love-sick beauties is on the other? ❋ Flidgetjerome (2006)

I understand the desire to connect to the "everyman" -- the typical consumer, but here the ad seems to suggest that Windows users simply are not cool. ❋ Theodor Rebegel (2009)

But this is a post-Promethean world, an industrial, capitalist, consumerist, information age world where the everyman is hero. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Clearly, this is a collection of songs about Springsteen's favorite topic, the everyman aka working man trying to catch a break, whether it be with that "Queen of the Supermarket" ( "where aisles and aisles of dreams await you"), or with that someone who is his "lucky day" when he's "seen strong hearts give way ... to the weary hands of time." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lynch just seems like he was breaking his neck in that interview to come off a humble, everyman, which is more fakewith his: "OMG, George sent a car to pick me up at the airport and drove a ferrari to lunch, I'm just a small time director!" ❋ Unknown (2009)

"All these protagonists are meant to be very relatable to what I lovingly describe as our everyman audience," he says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We have had that all along, but now you have something that really I think strikes at the heart of the so-called everyman in our society. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The latest chronicle of the adventures of so-called "everyman" Nathan Drake ups the ante on everything that made the previous game great, including its Hollywood-inspired bombast. ❋ John Mix Meyer (2011)

Is Duncan based on anyone you have known or is he a kind of "everyman" example of the male obsessive? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Campbell Soup spokesman John Faulkner says the character is meant to be an "everyman" and that Gaul has been in Campbell's soup ads for three years, promoting the company's convenience line of soups. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• And you know who she's riffing off of with this "everyman" shtick? ❋ Michael Shaw (2010)

Abnett and Lanning have made Richard Ryder such a great "everyman" who has been thrown into extraordinary circumstances, with a healthy dose of weirdness to boot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. Person A: "Did you hear about that guy who killed 30 [gators] with his bare hands?" Person B: "Yeah, he's a real everyman." 2. Person C: "[Aw yeah], I [everyman'd] that final exam. 100%, no studying or cheating involved." 3. *Person D sees that Person E has almost killed the boss, but has very little health left himself* Person D: "Everymaaan!" ❋ BroFin (2009)

[Lance] was the [everyman] who just defeated the entire invading alien force with just an [assault rifle]. ❋ Paladin356 (2009)

Person 1: Do you [feel bad] for Everyman? Person 2: [Yes], just like all of [the other] Amalgamates. ❋ MEMEry_Head-323 (2017)

Postive use: Guy 1: I really like [Daughtry's] song, Home. Guy 2: Who wouldn't? There such a great everyman band. Negative use: Guy 1: Did you get [Nickelback's] new album? Guy 2: *[scoffs]* Ha. I wouldn't spend a nickel on that crappy everyman band. ❋ Becks Grevau (2007)

What is an Educated Everyman? The heavy metal pastor who [weighed in] on the King James Only Movement is the archetype for this character when they're much older. [TVTropes] would consider the archetype of the Greek philosopher Aesop but minus the funny talking animals. What ever you do, just don't steal their walkman in [Cabrini Green] because they will give you chase at full sprint. ❋ Illinoishorrorman (2018)

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