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

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

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

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

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

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

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said. “People found it annoying, and people ate it ...

October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...