There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...

Words commonly used in association ... a player access to hidden features, and the latter meaning a scene which is watched inbetween gameplay. Elsewhere, stroopwafel has been added to the English ...

The dictionary contains about 500,000 words and phrases used in past and present English, along with their etymology, meanings and examples of sentences used in novels, academic papers, news articles ...

With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...

This bilingual dictionary will initially be piloted in 100 government schools across Karnataka and aims to expand to 400 ...

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

Brett Ellis is unimpressed with the 'word of year' lists Cambridge, the dictionary, not the place, chose ‘manifest’ which is imagining something will make it happen.

Happy New Year, Scrolling in the Deepers! It’s 2025, which marks the official start of Generation Beta, ushering in the ...

According to Urban Dictionary, "gagged" means "to be amazed or stunned by someone or a situation of some kind." The site says the term is also "often used within the LGBT community and the ballroom ...