Merriam-Webster has added 200 new words and definitions to its dictionary. The new additions are added based on widespread ...

Merriam-Webster is introducing 200 new words to the world. They may be words or phrases you already know, but now they are ...

Our favorite new words of 2024 The English language is anything but boring—and we’re not saying that just because we’re word ...

The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster.com, has taken a stab at keeping itself up to date, adding 200 new words and phrases to its database. “Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources ...

If you have tweens or teens at home, you have probably heard your kids using words you've never heard of. It's a new slang ...

Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim ...

Merriam-Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, has just chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the ...

Decades before “Inside Out,” the author showed us the inner life of kids—and the strangeness of their imagination.

The dictionary defines disenfranchise as “to deprive of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity, especially,to deprive of the right to vote” (Merriam Webster). For years, women and ...

Today, those crazy kids are far from the only users of drones ... sure we’re clear on what a drone is. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a drone is “an unmanned aircraft or ship ...

But most haven’t really thought about the underlying risks enough. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines risk as the possibility of loss or injury: peril. That’s a rather stark definition ...

Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources to select which words and definitions to add,” Merriam-Webster's Peter ...