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鈥楳anifest鈥� is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:03:53 +0000

鈥�Manifest鈥� was looked up almost 130,000 times on the Cambridge Dictionary website, making it one of the most-viewed words of 2024.聽聽

探花直播word jumped from use in the self-help community and on social media to being widely used across mainstream media and beyond, as celebrities such as singer Dua鈥疞ipa,鈥疧lympic sprinter Gabby Thomas and England striker Ollie Watkins spoke of manifesting their success in 2024.聽

Mentions of it gained traction during the pandemic and have grown in the years since, especially on TikTok and other social media, where millions of posts and videos used the hashtag #manifest.

They use 鈥榯o manifest鈥� in the sense of: 鈥榯o imagine achieving something you want, in the belief that doing so will make it more likely to happen鈥�. Yet, manifesting is an unproven idea that grew out of a 100-year-old spiritual philosophy movement.

Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager of the Cambridge Dictionary, said: 鈥淲hen we choose a Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year, we have three considerations: What word was looked up the most, or spiked? Which one really captures what was happening in that year? And what is interesting about this word from a language point of view?

鈥溾€楳anifest鈥� won this year because it increased notably in lookups, its use widened greatly across all types of media due to events in 2024, and it shows how the meanings of a word can change over time.鈥�

However experts warn that 鈥榤anifesting鈥� has no scientific validity, despite its popularity. It can lead to risky behaviour or the promotion of false and dangerous beliefs, such as that diseases can be simply wished away.

鈥淢anifesting is what psychologists call 鈥榤agical thinking鈥� or the general illusion that specific mental rituals can change the world around us," said Cambridge 探花直播 social psychologist Professor Sander van der Linden, author of 探花直播Psychology of Misinformation.

鈥淢anifesting gained tremendous popularity during the pandemic on TikTok with billions of views, including the popular 3-6-9 method which calls for writing down your wishes three times in the morning, six times in the afternoon and nine times before bed. This procedure promotes obsessive and compulsive behaviour with no discernible benefits. But can we really blame people for trying it, when prominent celebrities have been openly 鈥榤anifesting鈥� their success?

鈥楳anifesting鈥� wealth, love, and power can lead to unrealistic expectations and disappointment. Think of the dangerous idea that you can cure serious diseases simply by wishing them away," said Van der Linden.

鈥淭here is good research on the value of positive thinking, self-affirmation, and goal-setting. Believing in yourself, bringing a positive attitude, setting realistic goals, and putting in the effort pays off because people are enacting change in the real world. However, it is crucial to understand the difference between the power of positive thinking and moving reality with your mind 鈥� the former is healthy, whereas the latter is pseudoscience.鈥澛�

鈥楳anyfest鈥�, manifest destiny, and manifestos

探花直播600-year history of the word 鈥榤anifest鈥� shows how the meanings of a word can evolve.

探花直播oldest sense 鈥� which Geoffrey Chaucer spelled as 鈥榤anyfest鈥� in the 14th century 鈥� is the adjective meaning 鈥榚asily noticed or obvious鈥�.

In the mid-1800s, this adjective sense was used in American politics in the context of 鈥渕anifest destiny鈥�, the belief that American settlers were clearly destined to expand across North America.

Chaucer also used the oldest sense of the verb 鈥榤anifest鈥�, 鈥榯o show something clearly, through signs or actions鈥�. Shakespeare used manifest as an adjective in 探花直播Merchant of Venice: 鈥楩or it appears, by manifest proceeding, that...thou hast contrived against the very life of the defendant鈥�.

探花直播verb is still used frequently in this way: for example, people can manifest their dissatisfaction, or symptoms of an illness can manifest themselves. Lack of confidence in a company can manifest itself through a fall in share price.

探花直播meaning of making something clear is reflected in the related noun 'manifesto': a 鈥榳ritten statement of the beliefs, aims, and policies of an organisation, especially a political party鈥� 鈥� a word that also resonated in 2024 as scores of nations, including the United Kingdom and India, held elections where parties shared manifestos.

Other words of 2024

探花直播Cambridge Dictionary is the world鈥檚 most popular dictionary for learners of the English language. Increases and spikes in lookups reflect global events and trends.聽Beyond 鈥渕anifest鈥�, other popular terms in 2024 included:聽

brat:聽a child, especially one who behaves badly

鈥淏rat鈥� went viral in the summer of 2024 thanks to pop artist Charli XCX鈥檚 album of the same name about nonconformist women who reject a narrow and highly groomed female identity as portrayed on social media. (We weren鈥檛 the only dictionary publisher to notice this.)聽

demure: quiet and well behaved鈥�

Influencer Jools Lebron鈥檚 satirical use of 鈥渄emure鈥� in a TikTok post mocking stereotypical femininity drove lookups in the Cambridge Dictionary.鈥� After brat summer, we had a demure fall.聽

Goldilocks: used to describe a situation in which something is or has to be exactly right鈥�

Financial reporters characterized India鈥檚 strong growth and moderate inflation as a Goldilocks economy in early 2024.聽聽

ecotarian: a person who only eats food produced or prepared in a way that does not harm the environment鈥�

This term rose in overall lookups in 2024, reflecting growing interest in environmentally conscious living.鈥�

New words, future entries?聽聽聽

All year round, Cambridge Dictionary editors track the English language as it changes. Newly emerging words that are being considered for entry are shared every Monday on the Cambridge Dictionary blog, About Words.聽

Words Cambridge began tracking in 2024 include:聽

quishing: the scam of phishing via QR code.聽

resenteeism: to continue doing your job but resent it. This blend of 鈥渞esent鈥� and 鈥渁bsenteeism鈥� is appearing in business journalism.聽聽

gymfluencer: a social media influencer whose content is focused on fitness or bodybuilding.聽

cocktail party problem (also cocktail party effect): the difficulty of focusing on one voice when there are multiple speakers in the room. This term from audiology is now being used with reference to AI.聽

vampire: a vampire device or vampire appliance is one which uses energy even when not in use. This is a new, adjective sense of an existing word.聽聽

Adapted from the聽Cambridge 探花直播 Press & Assessment website.聽

探花直播controversial global trend of manifesting has driven Cambridge Dictionary鈥檚 Word of the Year for 2024.

Why psychologists warn against manifesting - Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year

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Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year 2021

ta385 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Perseverance has been looked up more than 243,000 times on the website in 2021, the first time it has made a noticeable appearance.聽

Defined by the dictionary as 鈥榗ontinued effort to do or achieve something, even when this is difficult or takes a long time鈥�, the word鈥檚 stellar performance this year may have as much to do with NASA as the pandemic. A spike of 30,487 searches for perseverance occurred between 19鈥�25 February 2021, after NASA鈥檚 Perseverance Rover made its final descent to Mars on 18 February.聽

Wendalyn Nichols, Cambridge Dictionary Publishing Manager, said: 鈥淚t made sense that lookups of 'perseverance' spiked at this time. Cambridge Dictionary is the top website in the world for learners of English, and perseverance is not a common word for students of English to have in their vocabulary. We often see spikes in lookups of words associated with current events when those words are less familiar.鈥�

In the following months, however, perseverance continued to be looked up more frequently on the site than ever before. Nichols said: 鈥淛ust as it takes perseverance to land a rover on Mars, it takes perseverance to face the challenges and disruption to our lives from COVID-19, climate disasters, political instability and conflict. We appreciated that connection, and we think Cambridge Dictionary users do, too.鈥�

Further evidence that words looked up on Cambridge Dictionary often reflect world events is that in January searches for insurrection, impeachment, inauguration and acquit all spiked as the world closely followed the US presidential election.聽

In 2020, 鈥榪uarantine鈥� defeated 'lockdown' and 'pandemic' to be crowned Word of the Year, attracting more than 183,000 views.聽

People use Cambridge Dictionary to develop their English language skills, and those who look up perseverance will find more than just the definition of the word. A new Cambridge Thesaurus article on perseverance goes beyond listing synonyms to explain the nuanced differences in meaning between perseverance, determination, persistence, doggedness, single-mindedness, tenacity, resolve, will, and the US term stick-to-it-iveness.

探花直播Cambridge team have also created a new list of words about being determined for English learners on Cambridge Dictionary +Plus. Research shows that many people learn new vocabulary more effectively when they have a record of it, so they can go back to study and test themselves. This word list includes vocabulary related to perseverance, so English language learners can easily find out more about the word of the year while simultaneously expanding their vocabulary.

Find out more about Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2021

Perseverance, a word which captures the undaunted will of people across the world to never give up, despite the many challenges of the last 12 months, is Cambridge Dictionary鈥檚 Word of the Year 2021.

Just as it takes perseverance to land a rover on Mars, it takes perseverance to face challenges and disruption to our lives

Wendalyn Nichols

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Cambridge Dictionary names 'quarantine鈥� Word of the Year 2020

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Quarantine was the only word to rank in the top five for both search spikes (28,545) and overall views (more than 183,000 by early November), with the largest spike in searches seen the week of 18-24 March, when many countries around the world went into lockdown as a result of COVID-19.

探花直播Cambridge Dictionary editors have also tracked how people are using quarantine, and have discovered a new meaning emerging: a general period of time in which people are not allowed to leave their homes or travel freely, so that they do not catch or spread a disease. Research shows the word is being used synonymously with lockdown, particularly in the United States, to refer to a situation in which people stay home to avoid catching the disease.

This new sense of quarantine has now been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, and marks a shift from the existing meanings that relate to containing a person or animal suspected of being contagious: a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must stay or be kept away from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease.

Wendalyn Nichols, Cambridge Dictionary Publishing Manager, said:

" 探花直播words that people search for reveal not just what is happening in the world, but what matters most to them in relation to those events. Neither coronavirus nor COVID-19 appeared among the words that Cambridge Dictionary users searched for most this year. We believe this indicates that people have been fairly confident about what the virus is.

"Instead, users have been searching for words related to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, as evidenced not just by quarantine but by the two runners-up on the shortlist for Word of the Year: lockdown, and pandemic itself."

Cambridge Dictionary is the top dictionary website for learners of English in the world. As well as definitions, the Cambridge Dictionary shows how words are used in real-world contexts. Its 鈥楢bout Words鈥� blog, written by language usage experts, helps learners gain confidence in using vocabulary related to specific topics.

探花直播most highly viewed blog post this year was Quarantine, carriers and face masks: the language of the coronavirus, which had almost 80,000 views in the first six weeks after it was posted on February 26, and now ranks as the ninth most viewed 'About Words' post in the nearly ten years that the blog has been live. 探花直播post covers a range of related terms, such as infectious, contagious, carriers, super-spreaders, and symptoms, as well as phrases such as contract a virus, a spike in cases, contain the spread, and develop a vaccine.

探花直播Cambridge Dictionary editors regularly monitor a wide range of sources for the new words and meanings that are added monthly to the online dictionary. On the 鈥楴ew Words鈥� blog, potential new additions are posted weekly for readers to cast their vote on whether they feel these words should be added.

In a recent poll, 33%聽of respondents said quaranteam - combining quarantine and team, meaning a group of people who go into quarantine together - should be added to the dictionary. Other suggestions include the portmanteau words quaranteen, coronial and lockstalgia.

鈥楺uarantine鈥� has defeated聽'lockdown' and 'pandemic' to be crowned聽Word of the Year 2020 after data showed it to be聽one of the most highly searched聽for on the Cambridge Dictionary.

Users have been searching for words related to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic

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Man sat looking out of a window at a giant representation of COVID-19. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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探花直播Cambridge Dictionary editors monitor a wide range of sources for the new words and meanings that are added monthly to the online dictionary:聽traditional media, blogs and social media posts, and user lookups from the website itself.聽聽

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'Upcycling' crowned Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2019

ta385 — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Upcycling was chosen as the 鈥榃ord of the Day鈥� which resonated most strongly with followers聽on the Dictionary鈥檚 Instagram account, @CambridgeWords. 探花直播noun聽鈥� defined as the activity of making new furniture, objects, etc. out of old or used things or waste material 鈥� received more likes than any other 鈥榃ord of the Day鈥� when shared on 4 July 2019.聽

探花直播number of times聽upcycling聽has been looked up on the Cambridge Dictionary website has risen by 181%聽since December of 2011, when it was first added to the online dictionary, and searches have doubled in the last year alone.

"We think it's the聽positive idea behind upcycling聽that聽appeals more than the word itself," said Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager of the Cambridge Dictionary. "Stopping the progression of climate change, let alone reversing it, can seem impossible at times. Upcycling is a concrete action a single human being can take to make a difference.

"Lookups of upcycling reflect the momentum around individual actions to combat climate change 鈥� the youth activism sparked by Greta Thunberg; the growing trends of vegan, flexitarian and plant-based diets;聽reading and following the handbook There is No Planet B; or fashion designers upcycling clothes to create their latest collections."聽

Other words on the shortlist for Word of the Year 2019 reflect the same concern with the effects of climate change, for instance:

carbon sink noun聽

An area of forest that is large enough to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere and therefore to reduce the effect of global warming

compostable adjective聽

Something that is compostable can be used as compost when it decays

preservation noun聽

探花直播act of keeping something the same or of preventing it from being damaged

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探花直播Cambridge Dictionary editors use data from the website, blogs, and social media to identify and prioritise new additions to the Dictionary. They identified upcycling as a word to include after noticing a spike in searches for the word in 2010.

A recent addition is the noun plastic footprint, defined as a measurement of the amount of plastic that someone uses and then discards, considered in terms of the resulting damage caused to the environment. This word, first identified by traditional citation gathering, received 1,048 votes in the New Words blog poll, with 61%聽of readers opting for the phrase to be added to Cambridge Dictionary.

Cambridge 探花直播 Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionary began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge online in 1999. Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, Cambridge Dictionary is the top learner dictionary website on the planet,聽currently serving 394 million unique visitors a year.

Cambridge Dictionary has named 'upcycling', the activity of making new items out of old or used things, as its Word of the Year 2019.聽

Upcycling is a concrete action a single human being can take to make a difference

Wendalyn Nichols

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Upcycling crowned Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2019

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'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge 探花直播 Press

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Choosing a winner required looking at not only the most searched-for words but also spikes聽鈥� occasions when a word is suddenly looked up many more times than usual on or around a particular date.聽

As Donald Trump, a polarizing candidate was being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 22, 2017, searches for the word 'inauguration' on the online Cambridge Dictionary spiked. But so did searches for the word 'populism' because, on that same day, Pope Francis warned against a rising tide of populism in a widely reported聽interview聽with聽El聽Pais聽newspaper. In mid-March, after another high-profile interview with the pontiff 鈥� this time with the German newspaper聽Die Zeit聽鈥� searches for聽populism聽spiked again.

Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager at Cambridge 探花直播 Press, said: 'Spikes can reveal what is on our users鈥� minds and, in what鈥檚 been another eventful year, plenty of spikes can be directly connected to news items about politics in the US (nepotism,聽recuse,聽bigotry,聽megalomania) and the UK (shambles,聽untenable,聽extradite). 探花直播much-anticipated聽Taylor Review聽of working practices in the UK caused the term 'gig economy' to spike in July, and of course the spectacular solar eclipse is reflected in the spike for聽eclipse聽on 21 August.

'What sets聽populism聽apart from all these other words is that it represents a phenomenon that鈥檚 both truly local and truly global, as populations and their leaders across the world wrestle with issues of immigration and trade, resurgent nationalism, and economic discontent.'

Populism is聽described by the Cambridge Dictionary聽as 鈥榩olitical聽ideas聽and聽activities聽that are聽intended聽to get the聽support聽of聽ordinary people聽by giving them what they聽want鈥�. It includes the usage label 鈥榤ainly disapproving鈥�.聽

Populism聽has a taint of disapproval because the -ism聽ending often indicates a philosophy or ideology that is being approached either uncritically (liberalism,聽conservatism,聽jingoism) or cynically (tokenism).

Evidence from the Cambridge English Corpus 鈥� a 1.5-billion-word database of language 鈥� reveals that people tend to use the term聽populism聽when they think it鈥檚 a political ploy instead of genuine. Both aspects of -ism聽are evident in the use of聽populism聽in 2017: the implied lack of critical thinking on the part of the populace, and the implied cynicism on the part of the leaders who exploit it.

探花直播word 'populism' has been announced as the聽Cambridge Dictionary聽2017 Word of the Year.聽

What sets populism apart from all these other words is that it represents a phenomenon that鈥檚 both truly local and truly global, as populations and their leaders across the world wrestle with issues of immigration and trade, resurgent nationalism, and economic discontent.

Wendalyn Nichols

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