anyone
No specific individual
Anyone means any person.
It is a pronoun that can stand in place of a name or any noun that designates a person.
Anyone doesn’t connote a gender; because of this, most people find it acceptable to use a plural, gender-neutral form after it, even though anyone is singular: Did anyone leave their cell phone by the pool?
Anyone is more frequent in questions and negative sentences than someone, but often they are interchangeable: Does someone have a pencil?/Does anyone have a pencil?
Anyone is always interchangeable with anybody.
All persons collectively
Unidentified individual
All persons collectively
- the publicPeople in general
- peopleHumans as a group
- humankindAll human beings collectively
- mankindCollective term for people
humanity · the masses · society · population · average person · everyman · general public
everybody
All persons collectively
somebody · someone · each · one · whosoever · everybody else · any one
somebody
Unidentified individual
everybody
All persons collectively
- the publicPeople in general
- peopleHumans as a group
- humankindAll human beings collectively
mankind · humanity · the masses · society · population · average person · everyman · general public
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- vague wordssomething, someone, somewhere, sometime, somehow
- The Whoperson, people, someone, nobody, somebody
- trisyllablesanimal, banana, beautiful, camera, company
- quantifiersall, any, every, each, both
- polarity wordsany, anything, anywhere, ever, either
- anyone elseInquiry seeking additional participants
- everybody who's anyoneAll notable or influential people
- anyone's guessEntirely unknown outcome
- anyone who's anyonePeople of social importance
- everyone who is anyoneAll persons of significance
- anybody who's anyonePeople of significance