Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has named its word of the year for 2017: feminism.
Merriam-Webster explains, "The word was a top lookup throughout the year, with several spikes that corresponded to various news reports and events." The dictionary's editors use a formula that weighs the raw number of lookups with current events to come up with a list every year. Here's the Top 10:
- Feminism
- Complicit
- Recuse
- Empathy
- Dotard
- Syzygy
- Gyro
- Federalism
- Hurricane
- Gaffe