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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year 2021

17 Nov 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...

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

Cambridge Dictionary names 'quarantine’ Word of the Year 2020

24 Nov 2020

‘Quarantine’ has defeated 'lockdown' and 'pandemic' to be crowned Word of the Year 2020 after data showed it to be one of the most highly searched...

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

05 Nov 2019

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

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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at Yokota Air Base | November 5, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge University Press

30 Nov 2017

The word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

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Fabio Capello

Which 100 words of English should Fabio learn?

12 Apr 2011

Following the media coverage of England football manager Fabio Capello’s claim that he only needs ‘100 words of English’, Cambridge Dictionaries...

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Dictionary

Defining words

01 Sep 2007

Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...

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