Oakland (California): Dictionary.com, a leading online and mobile English-language educational resource, Monday December 18 announced "eras", as the inaugural 2023 Vibe of the Year, a playful addition to its annual Word of the Year selection.
The dictionar defined eras as "periods of time in a person's life characterized by something distinctive and noticeable, such as a particular emotional state, relationship, achievement, or interest".
Eras was selected based on the shared sense that we're all looking for ways to define the perpetually shifting stages of our cultural and personal histories.
"Vibe was one of Dictionary.com's top lookups of the year, which led us to consider what word could best represent 2023's overall culture vibe," said Grant Barrett, head of lexicography at Dictionary.com.
"Like vibe, the word era has been undergoing a similarly slangy evolution, referring to our moods, aesthetics, and life stages—and in 2023, we saw a real surge in this use of eras across popular culture", he added.
In 2023, eras took on a new connotation beyond Taylor Swift's record-shattering Eras Tour, as people empowered themselves to define and redefine their own personal eras:
'I'm in my single era' or 'I'm in my adulting era.'
Along with debates about who's got rizz and who's a nepo baby (or nepo friend), Dictionary.com considered the era of woman-powered words, from girl dinner, coined on TikTok by Olivia Maher, to girl math, lucky girl syndrome, and vibecession, introduced by content creator Kyla Scanlon to refer to widespread pessimism about the economy regardless of the actual economic situation.
Various dictionaries operational in the world add new words in their libraries based on their usage, popularity and adoption.
Last week, Dictionary.com announced hallucinate as the Word of the Year. Read more about Dictionary.com's Vibe of the Year selection here.
Similarly, Urban Dictionary - a crowd funded English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrase, had in November this year, announced “Israeled” as top trending word.
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