ANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does any mean? 

• ANY (adjective)
  The adjective ANY has 1 sense:

1. one or some or every or all without specification

  Familiarity information: ANY used as an adjective is very rare.

• ANY (adverb)
  The adverb ANY has 1 sense:

1. to any degree or extent

  Familiarity information: ANY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One or some or every or all without specification

Synonyms:

any; whatever; whatsoever

Context example:

no milk whatsoever is left

Similar:

some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)

• ANY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To any degree or extent

Context example:

it isn't any better

 Context examples 

He was glad he had not told any one about his article.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To others he appears as a beautiful fairy, or a brownie, or in any other form that pleases him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

As he came nearer, he saw that the two men were his brothers, who had turned robbers; so he said, “Cannot they in any way be saved?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That is why you need to use the first two weeks of February in any way you can imagine to push yourself forward.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You know you only mean that in relation to human life, for of the flesh and the fowl and the fish you destroy as much as I or any other man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At any rate, on our side the shield, it was considered a knock-out blow to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I shall not fear to sleep in any place where he is not.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed, nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated the house from the road.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)