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The Word of the Day features interesting words, terms, and phrases on the Main Page. For Words of the Day in languages other than English, see Foreign Word of the Day.

The sysop Sgconlaw (talk • contribs) is currently in charge of the process, setting dates for the words, and sprinkling the future WOTDs with magic.

Today’s Word of the Day

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Word of the day
for July 15
apprenticeship n
  1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
  2. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.

Today is observed by the United Nations as World Youth Skills Day in recognition of the importance of developing skills in the younger generation and preparing them for adulthood.

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Tomorrow’s Word of the Day

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Word of the day
for July 16
glamour n
  1. (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
  2. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
  3. (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
  4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
  5. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
  6. (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
  7. (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.

Today is International Drag Day, a day celebrating the art and culture of Drag globally.

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History

The first ever Word of the Day was dog, added 14 December 2002, two days after the founding of Wiktionary. Although there were several early attempts to begin a Word of the Day on Wiktionary, the first official WOTD was posted on 10 January 2006 by Iamnotanorange.

Considerable opposition to the WOTD was raised, as it was felt that one full year’s supply of terms should be prepared before it appeared on the Main Page. That took over a year to happen.

In 2007, the RSS feed was created, then an alternate feed (no longer operational) was later added. In July and August 2007, the WOTD was added to the Wikimedia Daily Article Mailing List.

Also in early 2007, the entries started being marked with {{was wotd}} to prevent duplicates, and an alphabetic index (which has since failed RFD) was added.

No voting process currently exists for deciding the terms that get featured as WOTD. The volunteers managing it use a set of criteria to ensure adequate variety for any given month’s batch of WOTDs. For details, please see “Wiktionary:Word of the day/Nominations”. Before entries finally make it into the spotlight, they are vetted and tidied up to ensure they are properly formatted and referenced, have suitable quotations, and so on. Only then will they be awesome enough to show to the world!

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