Word Of The Year 2024 Merriam Webster. ‘brat’,newly defined in 2024 as ‘characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude’, has been named collins' word of the year 2024. There’s also an etymology section, where one learns that cursory was borrowed from the medieval latin adjective cursōrius, which described things that were swift or related to.

Collin’s 2023 word of the year was ai, short for artificial intelligence. Inspired by the charli xcx album,.