The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

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

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

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

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

We spoke with Dictionary.com’s social media team, which has a lot more to say than just what words mean. The website’s Twitter account now goes far beyond vocabulary-building blasts, seizing instead ...

This year, the word "identity" joins an exclusive club of words. It is Dictionary.com's word of the year. Users looked up about 5.5 billion words this year on Dictionary.com, and Mic spoke to Jane ...

We have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words Tuesday and more than 1,200 new and revised definitions for existing words. The update comes as the ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.