Columnist Joan Barron writes, “With the new year we have new words to ponder, like 'sportocrat,' and 'fleek.' The German word 'Backpfeitfengesicht' ...

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

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For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its "Collegiate Dictionary." The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds.

People made a terrible fuss when Dictionary.com named “6–7” its word of the year. Brain rot, people said. Language has gone to hell, others decried. Our children are illiterate, still more wailed. (My ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Browser Extension is a free, open-source tool that lets you quickly find English-to-English definitions for any word or phrase. With its simple and user-friendly ...

The word “convivial” is derived from Late Latin convivialis meaning “pertaining to a feast,” from Latin convivium meaning “a feast,” from convivere “to carouse together, live together,” and from the ...

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

This name combo pits two extremely contradictory concepts of style, values, and leadership against each other in a way that ...

For anyone dreading sitting across from their teenage cousin and feeling like the oldest person to ever walk the earth as ...

Spending time around children this holiday season? USA TODAY defined four Gen Alpha slang phrases to know ahead of your ...