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any is an adjective and adverb meaning "one or some or every or all without specification". It carries 2 recorded senses.
one or some or every or all without specification
“give me any peaches you don't want”
“not any milk is left”
“any child would know that”
“pick any card”
“any day now”
“cars can be rented at almost any airport”
“at twilight or any other time”
“beyond any doubt”
“need any help we can get”
“give me whatever peaches you don't want”
“no milk whatsoever is left”
to any degree or extent
“it isn't any better”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for any come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.