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What does everyman mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word everyman? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
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It is the argot of a tribe rather than the idiom of everyman.
Elvis was a titan, a heroic everyman, an emblem of America's true greatness.
The police become the avatars for an excessively brutal state and our hero, still unspeaking, is the everyman forced to suffer at its hands.
At his best, he is an exquisite everyman, for he can create, defend, and score goals.
This is a guy whose appeal is that he's an everyman, a standard-issue schmoe, and his voice is flat and unexpressive.
The angry everyman is an old cliche in the news game, one that is alive and well in talk radio, on cable TV and on new Internet venues.

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