It seems to come earlier every year: publishers and dictionaries choosing their “word of the year”. Initially intended to sum up a meaningful trend or feeling that represents the past year ...

We asked Stylist women to share the word that best describes their past 12 months. Here’s what they had to say. But while, on a macro level, these words speak to the collective journey we’ve ...

What do these words have in common? They've all been crowned words of the year at some point in the decade that's about to end (yep, we've said it.) Year after year, teams of lexicographers ...

'Brain rot' has been named the Oxford word of the year in a nod to low-quality social media content that is 'deteriorating' British people's minds. It was defined as: 'The supposed deterioration ...

The viral term beat out top finalists "prompt," "situationship" and even "Swiftie" Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the ...

Though it's officially 2017, the world is still trying to recover from the that was 2016. While the year provided us with enough words to form a glossary, a few in particular were powerful ...