Everyman is used to refer to men in general. If you say, for example, that a character in a film or book is an everyman, you mean that the character has experiences and emotions that are like those of any ordinary person.
Douglas plays a frustrated American everyman who suddenly loses control under thepressure of daily life.
Everyman in British English
(ˈɛvrɪˌmæn)
noun
1.
a medieval English morality play in which the central figure represents humankind, whose earthly destiny is dramatized from the Christian viewpoint
2. (often not capital)
an ordinary person
Everyman in American English
(ˈɛvriˌmæn)
noun
[oftene-]
a person or fictional character regarded as representing the human race or the common person
Examples of 'Everyman' in a sentence
Everyman
But he reeled off about half the catalogue from the back of an Everyman Library volume.
Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR
Johnny appeared to be absorbed in his Everyman edition of Leibnitz's Monadology.