Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using ...

Now we’re sucking diesel with this perfect list of translations. An American man working in an office in Galway decided to ...

The recent additions come after the dictionary included cheffy, chef’s kiss, jollof rice, smashburger and stagiaire ...

Careful if someone from the South or South Midland states tells you that you have a booger—they could mean something more ...

If you’re searching in a foreign-language newspaper or other documents and don’t know the language, then you have a couple of ...

Today Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 200 new words and definitions to its iconic dictionary – maybe not a beach read, but worthy of a For You page and nearly as irresistible as street corn.

The Lord of the Rings, an epic tale of good and evil, was published in 1954, when ‘good’ as a noun was used 0.00416% of the time – a rate almost twice that of 2022. Mr. Tolkien’s worldview was very ...

In 1889, the first bra, the “corselet gorge,” was born in France when Herminie Cadolle cut a corset into two separate pieces.

The V.I.P., a very important or influential person, can engender feelings of awe in those around him or her. What are some of ...

Many of us have ordered shots at a bar without thinking twice about it. As for where that name comes from, though, there's no ...

Despite its large Spanish speaking population, the federal Voting Rights Act does not require multilingual ballots in ...

In addition to street corn (noun, grilled corn on the cob that is coated with a creamy spread), additional nouns include ...