Beyoncé will be included as a new entry in the latest edition of the French encyclopedic dictionary Le Petit Larousse.
The American pop star will be alongside celebrities including Cate Blanchett, French actor Omar Sy, Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan and French rugby captain Antoine Dupont in the 120th edition of the popular dictionary.
More than 150 new words were added this year.
Many “reflect concerns, developments or strong movements this year,” Carine Girac-Marinier, director of the dictionaries and encyclopedias department, told French magazine Le Point.
Beyonce broke records this year with his Texas Hold ‘Em single, Cowboy Carter.
She became the first black woman to reach number one on the US country chart with Texas Hold ‘Em.
She also got second chart doubles in the UKwith the single and album taking the top spot.
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It’s not the first time that Beyoncé has left her mark on a dictionary. In 2004, the term “bootylicious” – popularized by Destiny’s Child’s hit of the same name, co-written by Beyoncé – was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Beyoncé reportedly said she wasn’t “proud” of the word, telling TV Hits magazine: “I wrote the song, but I wish there was another word I could have invented if I wanted to have a word in the dictionary. “
Other new additions to the dictionary include the English phrase “fast fashion”, “platisme” – the French term for the Flat Earth theory – and “trottinettiste”, a person who rides a scooter, or “trottinette”.
The Cambridge Dictionary declared “hallucinate” as the word of the year to 2023 due to its new alternative meaning related to the production of false information by AI.
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