With less than a month left until January, Merriam-Webster has chosen its 2024 Word of the Year, one that has often defined the political landscape of the United States and its candidates.

For example, in 2023 the word of the year was “climate change”; in 2020 it was “coronavirus”; in 2019, “Brexit”; and in 2017 it was “Trump”. According to educator and linguistic ...

Alamy Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.” Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press defines the viral term, which is short for charisma, as “someone’s ability to attract another ...

Hello, "rizz." Folks, we've done it again — as a collective, we've pushed the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary into making a slang term its word of the year. The dictionary again opened its ...

Credit: Vicky Leta / Mashable "Allyship" is Dictionary.com's Word of the Year — a defining term for a period marked by community organizing, online activism, and protest. The choice, announced ...

The debate began when Bhavish Aggarwal, who was last year involved in a public spat with Kunal Kamra, said that Amish Tripathi's podcast -- the "History of Sati Pratha" -- was "amazing".

And now, the hype surrounding Wordle has been commemorated in the Cambridge Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year: homer. While it may seem like a random choice if you weren’t a hardcore Wordler ...

What do these words have in common? They've all been crowned words of the year at some point in the decade that's about to end (yep, we've said it.) Year after year, teams of lexicographers ...

This word has appeared in 90 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 29 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

Other words of the year include “Kyiv”, “warm bank” and “splooting”. To say that 2022 has been a rollercoaster would be a significant understatement. For most of us, the past 10 months ...

It has been 170 years since, and the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen “brain rot” as its Word of the Year 2024. First coined by Thoreau, the use of this expression is said ...