I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like ...

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

Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

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

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

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

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has named "slop" as its 2025 word of the year.

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

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

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

At a time when words matter, one dictionary has emerged to school us all: Merriam-Webster. With eyes glued to press briefings and testimonies, people are turning to dictionaries to find out what ...