December 21, 2004

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  Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004

  
  

  Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was

  
  

  Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer

  
  

  Click on each of the other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

  
  

   2. incumbent
   3. electoral
   4. insurgent
   5. hurricane
   6. cicada
   7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
   8. partisan
   9. sovereignty
  10. defenestration

  
  

   

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