Among the newly enshrined entries are phrases and words such as yarn dust, area boy, adire, Kanuri, agbero, Edo, cross-carpet ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a "blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a 'faux pas'." It evokes a ...

Some of the words include 419, which means fraud, and agbero, used to refer to a young man who works as a tout at car parks ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added seven new Korean words, including “dalgona” and “maknae”. According to the ...

Words commonly used in association with video games and the name of a Dutch sweet treat are among the terms that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

A restaurant is opening its doors on Christmas Day to provide free meals to homeless people. It has been organised by the Oxford Homeless Project - a Muslim community group, and will take place at ...

The dictionary is written entirely in the Tibetan script. All 223 volumes in hardback format were presented to the Library of Congress in Washington DC, on December 12 as a “gift to the US government ...