As the award celebrates its 20th anniversary, Fiona McPherson, a senior editor in the New Words team of the Oxford English ...

Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general ...

Americans living in separate realities are heading to the polls. They face an avalanche of misinformation about everything — and the conspiratorial mindset is open to it all.

A quarter century since we learned about ‘carbon footprints’, researchers say it’s time to change the conversation. View on ...

The Rizz meme is a slang term that is short for “charisma,” more specifically referring to the ability of men to attract ...

It marked a sharp departure from the preceding “clean girl” trend which promoted things such as yoga, early nights and slicked-back hair. Lexicographers at Collins Dictionary put “brat” at the top of ...

A legendary college town. Recently cited by Yahoo as the #3 College Town in the United States. Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami's main campus, is a picturesque town brimming with ideas and opportunities.

That the Labour backbench is not a drawer filled with especially sharp knives is a fact becoming clearer by the day. There’s ...

The answer to the “Silly as all get-out” clue in the Nov. 7 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle is “INANE.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, inane means lacking sense or meaning and is an adjective.

Thirteen indicators were used to calculate University of Oxford's overall Best Global Universities rank. Here is a breakdown of how this institution ranked relative to other schools for each ...

Collins Dictionary declared "brat" — the album title that became a summer-living ideal — its 2024 word of the year. The word, used by singer Charli XCX as the title of her sixth studio album, has been ...