"Word of the year"

• news Oxford picks 2025 word of the year it can actually define By Drew Gillis December 1, 2025 | 2:01pm
• aux Dictionary.com can't really define its "Word Of The Year," 6-7 By Mary Kate Carr October 29, 2025 | 12:45pm
• aux American Dialect Society once again chooses chaos, names "rawdog" 2024 Word Of The Year By William Hughes January 11, 2025 | 3:55pm
• aux Oxford names "Brain Rot" Word of the Year By Matt Schimkowitz December 1, 2024 | 7:29pm
• aux American Dialect Society names "-ussy" its 2022 Word Of The Year, and there's nothing we can do about it By William Hughes January 8, 2023 | 12:19am
• aux Merriam-Webster insists “gaslighting” was the word of the year, even if you thought it wasn't By Sam Barsanti November 28, 2022 | 9:01pm
• aux Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year is, of course, "pandemic" By Britt Hayes November 30, 2020 | 5:32pm
• aux Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "they," just edging out "crawdad" By Sam Barsanti December 10, 2019 | 9:34pm
• aux Macquarie Dictionary's "word of the year" for 2019 is "cancel culture" By Reid McCarter December 2, 2019 | 6:10pm
• aux We can thank Greta Thunberg and Jane Fonda for Collins Dictionary’s word of the year By Gwen Ihnat November 12, 2019 | 6:30pm
• aux Evildoers beware: Merriam-Webster's 2018 word of the year is justice By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2018 | 7:21pm
• aux Dictionary declares "milkshake duck" its word of the year, thus ending the term's usefulness By Reid McCarter January 15, 2018 | 4:51pm
• aux Merriam-Webster names "Feminism" its word of the year By Katie Rife December 12, 2017 | 9:15pm
• aux Ivanka Trump's ignorance of the meaning of "complicit" made it the Word Of The Year By Sam Barsanti November 28, 2017 | 1:10am
• aux Merriam-Webster names “surreal” its Word of the Year for 2016 By Katie Rife December 20, 2016 | 6:34pm
• aux Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “-ism,” which is not actually a word By Alex McLevy December 15, 2015 | 6:42pm
• aux Oxford Dictionaries names an emoji its word of the year By B.G. Henne November 17, 2015 | 4:57pm
• aux Oxford Dictionary names “vape” Word of the Year, is super into vaping now By Sean O'Neal November 18, 2014 | 9:56pm
• aux “Post-truth” is the word of this sick, sad year, Oxford Dictionaries says By Joe Blevins November 16, 2016 | 9:28pm