"Lockdown" is the Word Of The year in 2020

Word Of The Year

Like another year, The Collins announce the Word of The Year this year. The word is nothing but unknown or uncommon because it is the most popular word this year used by millions of people. And they choose the word "Lockdown" as a Word of the year in 2020. 

  The Collins is famous for Dictionary and an institute of United Kingdom recently announced the word "Lockdown" as the Word Of the Year. The Collins published the category for "Word of The Year" every year, like this year they have published it too. Collins confirms that the Word LOCKDOWN is increased by 6,000% in usage of the word since 2019, ranking among mostly for Corona Virus (Covid-19) terms. 

Lockdown, the noun that has come to define so many lives across the world in 2020, has been named word of the year by Collins Dictionary. The 4.5bn-word Collins Corpus, which contains written material from websites, books, and newspapers, as well as spoken material from radio, television, and conversations, registered a 6,000% increase in its usage. In 2019, there were 4,000 recorded instances of the lockdown being used. In 2020, this had soared to more than a quarter of a million. Previous Year Word In the Year was, climate strike in 2019, single-use in 2018, fake news in 2017, and Brexit in 2016 

 

Collins Top 10 Words in 2020 are:

1. coronavirus (noun):
2. furlough (noun)
3. key worker or keyworker (noun, Brit)
4. lockdown (noun)
5. Megxit (noun, informal)
6. making (noun, Korean)
7. self-isolate(verb)
8. social distancing (noun)
9. TikToker (noun)

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