Word Of The Year

• ‘Rage bait’ is Oxford University Press’s 2025 word of the year

  The 2025 news cycle was 'dominated by social unrest, debates about the regulation of online content, and concerns over digital wellbeing,' OUP said while announcing the decision.

  World

  Dec 1, 2025
  
• ‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford word of the year. Are you noticing it?

  'Brain rot' is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially due to overconsumption of "trivial or unchallenging" material.

  World

  Dec 2, 2024
  
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• ‘They’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2019 Word of the Year

  "They" refers to a person whose gender identity is non-binary.

  Lifestyle

  Dec 10, 2019
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• Thanks, Forky: ‘Existential’ is Dictionary.com’s word of the year

  The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019.

  Lifestyle

  Dec 3, 2019
• Top of mind: ‘Justice’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year

  The word follows "toxic," picked by Oxford Dictionaries, and "misinformation," plucked by Dictonary.com.

  World

  Dec 17, 2018
• Dictionary.com names ‘misinformation’ as 2018 word of the year

  Misinformation “frames what we’ve all been through in the last 12 months," the linguist-in-residence at Dictionary.com said.

  World

  Nov 26, 2018
• ‘Feminism’ chosen as word of the year by Merriam-Webster

  Feminism is defined as “theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes” and “organized activities on behalf of women’s rights and interests.”

  World

  Dec 12, 2017
• ‘Complicit’ named word of the year by Dictionary.com

  Look-ups of the word increased nearly 300 per cent over last year.

  World

  Nov 27, 2017
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• Word of the Year: tragic world events, Trump election makes ‘surreal’ top word of 2016

  he Word of the Year for 2016 is surreal— with lookups of the word spiking after a number of major events worldwide, including the Brussels terror attacks in March and the 2016 U.S. presidential election in November.

  News

  Dec 19, 2016
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• Austria’s word of the year? Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung

  For all those who don't speak German - and indeed for those who do - here is Austria's word of the year, adding to the challenges of reading and speaking the language.

  World

  Dec 9, 2016