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

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

The last time I looked up a word in the dictionary, the chosen word was “lackadaisical.” And while I thumbed dutifully through the wad of wan, phlegmatic pages, I must confess that I had trouble ...

The Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced website that records new words and their meanings. It began life in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com but has since become an important resource on the Web.

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 ...

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

A first-ever fully Irish dictionary has been launched in a ‘historic moment’ for the language. The launch means that anyone looking for the definition of an Irish word will now be able to do so ...