tout le monde
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tout le monde.
Pronoun[edit]
- everyone, everybody
- 1991 November 20, Chicago Tribune:
- And when the aura of sports reaches the stratospheric level of a Michael Jordan, tout le monde takes notice.
- 2001 February 4, Star Tribune:
- What's the sample here - a dozen people, a thousand, a million, tout le monde?
- 2005 August 29, New York Observer:
- Tout le monde is now saying these particular trans fats are so completely and utterly heinous for our tickers and arteries that lard is starting to look good again.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tout (“all”) + le (“the”) + monde (“people; world”). Literally, “all the world”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
Usage notes[edit]
To express "the whole world" where world refers to the Earth, one says le monde entier.
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