In Merriam-Webster’s tenth edition, the dictionary defines the noun female as “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs.” The change in the online edition to ...

Earlier today, Merriam-Webster announced that it'd added 200 new words and phrases to its online dictionary in its latest ...

The words are added to the online dictionary first ... meaning of “someone who is overly sensitive”, according to Merriam-Webster’s definition. Some of the words have been around for ...

Merriam-Webster chooses each word of the year based on lookup data—how often a word was searched in its online dictionary. Last year, the winning word was “authentic,” while “gaslighting ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," told us that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, and how to use it correctly.