Not just for summer: 'Brat' is Collins Dictionary's word of the year

Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” its 2024 connection of nan year

LONDON -- Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” – nan medium title that became a summer-living perfect – its 2024 connection of nan year.

The word, utilized by vocalist Charli XCX arsenic nan title of her sixth workplace album, has been defined arsenic “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”

Collins lexicographers said connected Friday that successful nan building “brat summer,” it became “one of nan astir talked astir words of 2024.”

“More than a hugely successful album, ‘brat’ is simply a taste arena that has resonated pinch group globally, and ‘brat summer’ established itself arsenic an artistic and a measurement of life,” nan dictionary said.

Collins experts show their 20-billion-word database to create nan yearly database of caller and notable words that bespeak nan ever-evolving English language.

Other caller and notable words for 2024 see “era,” successful nan consciousness of “a play of one’s life aliases profession that is of a unique character.” It’s inspired by Taylor Swift’s world-conquering Eras tour.

Other notable neologisms among nan dictionary’s word-of-the-year finalists see nan increasing movement against wide tourism, “anti-tourism”; “delulu,” meaning utterly mistaken aliases unrealistic successful one’s ideas aliases expectations; and “rawdogging,” taking a long-haul formation pinch nary devices aliases distractions.

“With galore of this year’s notable words being popularized by generations Z and Alpha, we tin confidently opportunity this is nan astir ‘brat’ Word of nan Year database ever,” said Collins managing head Alex Beecroft.

Collin's 2023 connection of nan twelvemonth was “AI,” short for artificial intelligence.