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

Significant time is spent on tracking the usage of words throughout the year before making decisions on contenders.

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

Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

Merriam-Webster, the publishing house behind the leading English dictionary in the United States, has chosen “slop” as its ...

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company ...

The quest to define and canonize new words in American English is as old as the country itself. In the new book "Unabridged: ...

The launch of the first-ever Irish dictionary has been hailed as a ‘historic moment’ for the language. An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge is the first monolingual ‘Irish-Irish’ dictionary, allowing anyone ...