Feminism: Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year

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    • Publish Date: Dec 13 2017 11:06AM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 13 2017 11:06AM
Feminism: Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year

This may or may not come as a surprise: Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017 is "feminism."

Yes, it's been a big year or two or 100 for the word. In 2017, lookups for feminism increased 70 percent over 2016 on Merriam-Webster.com and spiked several times after key events, lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, the company's editor at large, told The Associated Press. 

The Women's March in Washington in January, the #MeToo Campaign that rose out of Harvey Weinstein's dust, the Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were some of the reasons why the word was used a lot. 

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Here's a list of words that lost out! Merriam-Webster had nine runners-up, in no particular order: 
  • Complicit, competitor Dictionary.com's word of the year. 
  • Recuse, in reference to Jeff Sessions and the Russia investigation. 
  • Empathy, which hung high all year. 
  • Dotard , used by Kim Jong-un to describe Trump.
  • Syzygy, the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse. 
  • Gyro, which can be pronounced three different ways, a phenom celebrated in a Jimmy Fallon sketch on ``The Tonight Show.'' 
  • Federalism , which Lindsey Graham referred to in discussing the future of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Hurricane , which Sokolowski suspects is because people are confused about wind speed. 
  • Gaffe , such as what happened at the Academy Awards when the wrong best picture winner was announced. That was a go-to word for the media, Sokolowski said. 

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Ujjwal Goel RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

i liked dotard

Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

Quite interesting!

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