Here’s the word on words. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is vocab-maxing with a staggering 1,400 new words added to its book ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

For those scrolling through social media comment sections and finding themselves confused by words like “rage-bait,” ...

Today Merriam-Webster announced a glow-up to its iconic dictionary with the addition of 1,400 new words and definitions. The new entries reflect words and meanings that have demonstrated widespread ...

The company, based in Springfield, Mass., announced on Tuesday that it had added those five terms and 1,395 other new ...

Critical Role got a surprising shout-out from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Earlier this week, Merriam-Webster’s Twitter account announced that 455 words and phrase were added to its dictionary, ...

A controversial comic book term has found itself inside an official dictionary. Gail Simone helped coin the term “fridging” when she created the Women in Refridgerators list back in 1999. The list ...

More than two centuries after Noah Webster published the first American dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, the publishing house that bears his name is developing a line of ...

Merriam-Webster’ dictionary adds new words that describe what we would rather not feel, and what we do to cope.

Merriam-Webster added 1,400 new words including vibe coding, looksmaxxing, parasocial, rickroll and meme coin in a sweeping ...