I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like ...

Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary. Merriam-Webster editors study the language and add new words to the dictionary every year based on their usage. The new additions are related to ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

Merriam-Webster's dictionary is adding a new entry to the definition of the pronoun “they”: a way to refer to a nonbinary individual, one who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. It’s ...

At a time when words matter, one dictionary has emerged to school us all: Merriam-Webster. With eyes glued to press briefings and testimonies, people are turning to dictionaries to find out what ...