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The lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year (for each year) are ten-word lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc., which feature the ten words of the year from the English language. These word lists started in 2003 and have been published at the end of each year.
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1]
Merriam-Webster started "Word of the Year" in 2003 when the war in Iraq and talk of "democracy" was in the news. In the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, the word was "bailout.” In 2020, the ...
The first year for which the word of the year was voted ("bushlips") by the ADS was 1990. [ 2 ] Sam Corbin, a words and language writer for The New York Times , comparing the ADS WOTY with the likes from prominent dictionaries , wrote that "the American Dialect Society celebrates linguistic variation to an almost absurd degree".
This category is about Word of the Year designations by various entities, not for articles about words that were themselves named word of the year. Pages in category "Word of the year" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year –– beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.”
Word of the year, the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Word of the Day .
In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Lookups for the word ...