Last week Dictionary.com released its “largest ever update,” with alterations to more than 15,000 entries, according to Allison Flood at The Guardian. Jennifer Steeves-Kiss, chief executive of Dictionary.com, explains:

“2020 has been a year of change like never before, affecting how we live, work, interact – and how we use language … Our biggest release yet represents a tireless commitment from our entire team not only to documenting how language evolves, but to ensuring our users always find the meaning they need.”

The updates are largely related to identity and range topics from race to gender to wellness. John Kelly, senior editor at Dictionary.com, told Rachel Treisman at NPR: “Our revisions are putting people, in all their rich humanity, first, and we’re extremely proud of that.”

Dictionary.com broke down some of the biggest changes you can expect to see:

• Capitalizing Black, “One of the most comprehensive—and important—updates to our dictionary,” writes Dictionary.com
• Replacing “homosexual,” a clinical term, with gay to respect “how people use language”
• Destigmatizing addiction and suicide by changing phrases like “commit suicide” to “die by suicide,” as preferred by health professionals
• Clearer definitions for animals, including: assistance animals, emotional support animals, comfort animals, companion animals, service animals, and therapy animals
• Words that define human impact on the environment, including: ecoanxiety, conservation status, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, and off-grid
• New terms for technological advancement, including: agile development, community management, natural language processing, sharent, ratio, techlast, and Twitch
• New words from politics and pop culture that the Dictionary.com team deemed more than a trend, like: amirite, contouring, GOAT, gender reveal, MAGA, and MeToo