Oxford Dictionaries has declared “Youthquake” as 2017 Word of the Year.
“Youthquake” was first coined in the 1960s by Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, who used it to describe sudden changes in fashion, music, and attitudes.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines youthquake as the “series of radical political and cultural upheavals occurring among students and young people in the 1960s”.
The word of the year is a word, or expression, that Oxford Dictionaries deems has “attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date” and is drawn from newspapers, books, blogs and transcripts of spoken English.
Last year’s word, “post-truth”, was chosen after the 2016 Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.
