Merriam-Webster's dictionary names its 2025 word of the year
"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.
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"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.
"Oligarch," "codify," "queen consort" and "loamy" were among the top 10 words of the year.
Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as its 2018 word of the year, driven by the churning news cycle over months and months.
This may or may not come as a surprise, but Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017 is "feminism." It has been a big year or two or 100 for the word.
President Donald Trump took credit in an interview for coining the phrase "prime the pump," seemingly unaware that it was popularized during the Great Depression more than 80 years ago.
In addition to elevating "surreal" in 2016 to word of the year, the dictionary company on Tuesday added about 1,000 new words and new definitions to existing listings on its website, Merriam-webster.com.
Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare? Try something in between: "surreal," which is Merriam-Webster's word of the year, unveiled Monday.
Merriam-Webster has picked the small but powerful suffix 'ism' as word of the year. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes in 2015 are socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism and terrorism.
A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind the 2014 word of the year.
