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

Conrad has done an outstanding job of pulling together a team of local workers at all levels of the business.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
During the boom years of the reform era, from 1978 to the early 2000s, China was a country of productive workers.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 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

Meanwhile, $12 million will go to a fund supporting out-of-work entertainment industry laborers.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Without fiefdoms structuring the distribution of land, the division of labor, and the provision of military protection, agents of state coercion were needed to ensure that former serfs would serve as wage laborers.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026