Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

Dictionary.com announced its 2019 Word of the Year today, and it is a big mood. The website has chosen the word "existential", as in "existential crisis" or "existential dread" — two things the vast ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The end of every year brings retrospectives on language from many dictionary editors and word aficionados. Their selections are ...

In a break from precedent, the dictionary company released an all-environmental shortlist including “climate action,” “climate denial” and “eco-anxiety.” By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Dictionaries has ...

Merriam Webster released its top-searched for words during the 2019 year and here’s what searchers most commonly looked up. In more recent times, they has also been used to refer to one person whose ...

As Dictionary.com explains in a blog post: High-stakes events around the world involving climate change, gun violence, and democratic institutions were some of the top news stories. And words about ...