Oxford Dictionaries is recognizing the power of the millennial generation with its 2017 word of the year:
Youthquake
Oxford lexicographers say there was a fivefold increase in use of the term between 2016 and 2017.
It is defined as "a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people."
In 1965, Diana Vreeland, editor-in-chief of Vogue, first declared the year of the youthquake, according to Oxford.
In an editorial in the Vogue US January edition that year, Vreeland wrote: ‘The year’s in its youth, the youth in its year. … More dreamers. More doers. Here. Now. Youthquake 1965.’
Vogue coined youthquake – based on the pattern of ‘earthquake’ – to describe the youth-led fashion and music movement of the swinging sixties, which saw baby boomers reject the traditional values of their parents.