The word “yuletide” is a noun that is defined as Christmas and the surrounding days, including all of its festivities. The ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

The phrase is considered an inside joke with no technical definition, often used to signal being part of an in-group. Linguistics experts compare "6-7" to past slang, noting it serves more of a social ...

Every year, dictionaries come to a verdict of a “Word of the Year” which is a single word that captures the spirit, concerns, or mood of that year. For 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary has selected a ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

The waning days of 2021 introduced us to a new genre of tweet: Green, yellow, and grey boxes arranged in a 5-wide grid with as many as six rows. The tweets also include some ...