As nations across the globe face a plethora of ongoing crises, the Collins English Dictionary Tuesday revealed its 2022 word of the year to be "permacrisis," a term to describe such events.

More than a “brat summer” – it may even be a brat year. Collins Dictionary has named “brat” its word of the year for 2024, defining it as someone “characterized by a confident ...

Brat is a word you've probably seen just about everywhere over the last couple of months and now it's officially Collins Dictionary word of the year. Defined as someone with a "confident ...

Collins said: “‘Brat’ has become one of the most talked about words of 2024, it resonated with people globally and ‘brat summer’ established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life”.

Previous Collins' words of the year include lockdown, climate strike, single-use, fake news, Brexit, binge-watch, photobomb and geek.