The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

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There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

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Derry City natives Pádraig Ó Mianáin and Joe Ó Labhraí are part of a team behind a groundbreaking new monolingual Irish ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of ...

During "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 12/10/25, we continue our annual tradition of discussing new words in the dictionary ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world ...

For the first time in more than two decades, there's a new hard-copy update to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It adds more than 5,000 new words and phrases. Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...