The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary named “vaccine” as the main word of 2021 »The main word of 2021. This is stated in a press release of the service.
Platform users were 601 percent more likely to search for the word “vaccine” in 2021, and the number of queries for this word increased by 1048 percent in two years.
< p> In the top ten most popular also were the words “uprising”, “perseverance” (the name of the rover that became a sensation in 2021), “knowledgeable” (in the USA it is used to describe people who preach a vigilant attitude towards racial or social oppression), ” nomad “,” infrastructure “,” cicada “,” murraya tree “,” cisgender “,” guard “and” meta “.
Vedomosti notes that in 2019 the title of the word of the year according to Merriam -Webster got the pronoun “they” (referring to people who do not identify themselves only as a man or a woman). In 2020, the noun “pandemic” became that word.