Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author and software engineer Thomas Dimson has created an AI dictionary that generates fake words and definitions. The project, like many similar ones released online recently, uses sophisticated AI ...

If such words cause anxiety, some relief may be found in dawn chorus: “the singing of wild birds that closely precedes and follows sunrise especially in spring and summer.” “Some of these words will ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

The Dictionary.com Chrome Extension makes going to a dictionary website redundant. Dictionary.com Extension is for everyone who isn’t blessed with a memory like the Oxford English Dictionary. If ...

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...