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Any   /ˈɛni/   Listen
adjective
Any  adj., pron.  
1.
One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be. Note: Any is often used in denying or asserting without limitation; as, this thing ought not be done at any time; I ask any one to answer my question. "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son."
2.
Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it? "Who will show us any good?" Note: It is often used, either in the singular or the plural, as a pronoun, the person or thing being understood; anybody; anyone; (pl.) any persons. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,... and it shall be given him." "That if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem."
At any rate, In any case, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.



adverb
Any  adv.  To any extent; in any degree; at all. "You are not to go loose any longer." "Before you go any farther."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Any" Quotes from Famous Books



... which is to be given to God), in English law, was a personal chattel (any animal or thing) which, on account of its having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the king for pious uses. Blackstone, while tracing in the custom an expiatory design, alludes to analogous Jewish and Greek ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various

... from embracing his proposal, alleging she was so much accustomed to her present way of life, and so much devoted to the service of the soldiery, that she should never be happy in retirement, while the troops of any prince in Christendom kept ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

... two men was working feverishly—he seemed to be a doctor, judging from the skill with which he tapped here and pressed there, evidently trying to find out what bones were broken, if any. ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler

... broke in gently, "we'll all have to think about ourselves a little if we're to be of any use to him. You ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt

... horses, at one Adams', on the Drovers' road, near the south border of Kentucky. His son-in-law, who had lived in the south, was there. In conversation about picking cotton, he said, 'some hands cannot get the sleight of it. I have a girl who to-day has done as good a day's work at grubbing as any man, but I could not make her a hand at cotton-picking. I whipped her, and if I did it once I did it five hundred times, but I found she could not; so I put her to carrying rails with the men. After a few days I found her shoulders were so raw that every rail was bloody ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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