The new book explores the evolution of the dictionary, as well as how we use and create language Unabridged was featured on ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into ...

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 Oxford English Dictionary has updated its entry for 'woman' so that it is defined as a 'person's' wife, girlfriend or lover as opposed to only a man's following a gender review. The publisher has ...

Dictionary.com recently unveiled its Summer Word Drop of new words that have been added to the online dictionary. And the new entries included three medical terms, five climate change and warm weather ...