For example, the dictionary continues, “She’s a multisport athlete who fell in love with quidditch.”

Of course, the dictionary gives proper due to Rowling, who invented the word, in when providing the word’s origin. From the “early 21st century,” quidditch is derived “from the name of a magical game described in J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,’ on which the sport is based.”

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The new definition has the earthly, quidditch-playing world excited.

Mel Piper, the president of QuidditchUK, which helped develop the sport and now governs it in Britain, said he was “thrilled” over the news.

“It really shows how far we have come as a sport, and is a key stage in our development in being seen more legitimately in our own right,” Piper added in a statement to The Washington Post.

Jack Lennard, the brain behind the sport’s first Premier League, which is set to launch this year, echoed that sentiment.

“We’re all delighted,” he said in an email. “Not only does it use ‘our’ version of the sport, but uses it with a lowercase ‘q’, which we always use — after all, you’d write football or basketball or any other sport the same way.”

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Meanwhile, America’s premier dictionary, Merriam-Webster, appears to have some catching up to do. Right now when you search for “quidditch,” all you get is a suggestion that you may have misspelled “quiddity,” a vague synonym for peculiarity.

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Representatives from Merriam-Webster did not immediately return The Post’s request to comment.

In the American tome’s defense, they’ve been awfully busy lately. Most recently, the dictionary’s Twitter account took United Airlines to task for calling the man violently dragged off a flight from Chicago a “volunteer.”

In quidditch terms, Merriam-Webster just caught the snitch. Game over.