Merriam-Webster is using voice search within its iPhone dictionary application that lets users look up any word by simply speaking into their device. Users can search for words without having to spell ...

In the] UK – we call it Autumn, from the French word ‘autompne’, and later, the Latin ‘autumnus’,” begins a now-infamous ...

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style game. The original Wordle, created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to find a five-letter word in ...

The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman. Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in ...

Context and references mean more than what the almighty dictionary says a word means. Merriam-Webster’s fun little awards touch on an important change in our culture. Since we are often living ...

If there was one word that described the year you just had, what would it be? Maybe it's one of the 690 new words and phrases ...

Being a parent is difficult, but the role is fairly clear. Being a grandparent is anything but clear. It is both wonderful ...

The Commanders only became an NFL franchise by that name in 2022, with two names having been in place prior to that.

Indeed, even whether the word itself applies to a given controversy ... esp : censorial control exercised repressively. --Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Censorship: The use of the state ...

Way back in 1828, Noah Webster learned 28 languages in order to write his groundbreaking dictionary ... It took more than a century before the word kvell appeared in an English book.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “strange” as “different from usual.” Its definition of “fauna” is “animal ...

Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “retirement” as the “withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active ...