Dictionary.com wasn't doing too much when it picked its 2024 Word of the Year. One could say the website was being very mindful, very cutesy, very... demure. Yes, "demure" is Dictionary.com's 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oxford's Australian Children’s Word of the Year for 2024 is 'friend', reflecting children's desire for deeper connection in a digital world.

This word has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 58 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.

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 ...

Editor: I always look forward to the end of the year when the world’s most preeminent, respected and august dictionaries release their words of the year. Nothing quite sums up the tenor of the ...

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 ...

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 ...