Dictionary.com social media manager Lauren Silter tells Bustle that the sycophant tweet related to Pence was a chance to bring language to people on their terms, to define something that was drawing a lot of attention and searches. In other words, what appeared to be a political tweet was in itself the result of an increasingly politicized culture.
Here are 20 words that are often misused, and what they actually mean according to Dictionary.com.
Dictionary.com — which bills itself as the “world’s leading digital dictionary” — has actually been a fairly regular and occasionally snarky critic of the Trump administration and the president’s own word choice. The web site’s Twitter account often bounces off the latest news, parsing the word choice of the president and administration officials.
The 2017 Word of the Year is complicit, says Dictionary.com. Complicit, defined as “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others,” was the annual pick of a word “indicative of larger trends that resonated throughout the year,” the company said. The choice was made by the online dictionary’s in-house experts ― lexicographers, the marketing and product teams, and the CEO.
To say 2017 has been a rough year would be an understatement. If you need some proof of the struggle look no further than Dictionary.com’s word of the year: Complicit. On Monday the online dictionary announced that the not-so-reassuring adjective is 2017’s standout word because it’s “indicative of larger trends that resonated throughout the year.”
Dictionary.com is demanding we all take a long hard look at ourselves by declaring the Word of the Year for 2017 to be “complicit.” You know who you are.
Word Tied to Trending Data, Global News Events OAKLAND, Calif., November 27, 2017 – Dictionary.com today announced it has named ‘complicit’ as 2017’s Word of the Year. Defined as “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others,” the word is indicative of larger trends that resonated throughout the year, hitting every aspect of today’s culture from politics and news, to …
Dictionary.com released a list of its most frequent “unmatched queries,” meaning words that people search for and come up blank. Because they’re not actual words. “Covfefe” tops the list, having been looked up “tens of thousands” of times, Dictionary.com editors say, since President Donald Trump tweeted: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” shortly after midnight May 31.
Online Dictionary Shares Most Looked Up Idioms Internationally & Top New Word Requests OAKLAND, Calif., October 18, 2017 – The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence where the chickens come home to roost, catch my drift? If not, you’re in luck – Dictionary.com, the leading online and mobile English-language resource, today released data on the most searched idioms across the globe …
Elizabeth McMillan is CEO of Dictionary.com, the leading digital brand for language mastery, where consumers the world over search for 5.5 billion new words each year. Its portfolio of award-winning mobile apps have been installed more than 100 million times.
In Dictionary.com’s next update, the online reference will add a definition for the term fake news. And even though Trump is partly responsible for the currency of that phrase, the definition won’t be true to the way he generally uses the term so much as the way it is used to describe alleged attempts by Russia to meddle in the 2016 election.
More than one-third (37%) of teachers have used memes, emojis and GIFs to help make a point or teach a lesson in their classrooms, according to a survey of more than 800 elementary through postgraduate teachers released by Dictionary.com.
