The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to ...

In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores how words become enshrined in the dictionary and whether the book maker can keep up with the evolution of language.

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves, founder and owner of Mili Mila Incorporated in Roxbury and author of two Cabo Verdean Creole ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

The dictionary features over 20,000 words and derivatives with their detailed translations in Kannada along with grammatical information on all English words.

So much happened in 2020 that not even the Word of the Year folks at the Oxford English Dictionary could come up with just one word to describe the past year; instead, the august dictionary folks ...

Gija elder Shirley Purdie likes the naughty words in her ancient language. She admits they can be used to keep misbehaving children in line. ''Funny sort of words … a bit sweary … that say, 'you're no ...

The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950s A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. Assyrian and Babylonian - ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...