Last year, the American publisher Merriam-Webster introduced 690 new words to its dictionary, ranging from the fictional slang term “padawan” to refer to a Jedi apprentice to the “deadname ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?

The Merriam-Webster dictionary chose "menorah" as its Word of the Day for Thursday. Its definition of the word is stated as "a candelabra with seven or nine lights that is used in Jewish worship.

The 2024 "Words of the Year" were revealed from top dictionaries like Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and Cambridge. Dictionary.com’s top word was "demure," reflecting a surge in ...

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The incoming president blames the "woke culture" for undermining America’s strength. He claims our military doesn’t want to ...

When you interrogate “a building or room used for social amusement, specifically… used for gambling,” one of the definitions given by Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary for the word ...

According to the January 8 Guardian, the New York Times refused to publish an anti-war ad from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) that referred ...

Words don’t stop coming and dictionaries continue to add hundreds of newfangled words to their pages and online databases every ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...

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