Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines social media as: “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online ...

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 ...

You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary ... too. From Merriam-Webster: Plural of gynoecium, or "the aggregate of carpels ...

Collins Dictionary declared "brat" — the album ... Collin's 2023 word of the year was "AI," short for artificial intelligence. Merriam-Webster typically announces its word of the year in late ...

By 1931, Rube’s name was in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, his legacy forever cemented as the inventor of complicated machinery designed to perform simple tasks. As one historian put it ...

You can tell it’s November because the lists have started to fall from the word trees, and first to land is 2024’s Word of ...

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The topic has remained on my mind and I finally got around to doing some dictionary searches ... My go to sources are generally Merriam-Webster and Oxford English dictionaries and both indicate ...

CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday turned to the dictionary to offer a chilling ... Tapper then cited Merriam-Webster’s definition of “fascism”: A populist political philosophy, movement, or ...

It was May 2017. Shortly after midnight, the then US President Donald Trump sparked chaos on internet with the mysterious ...

Like most memes and acronyms, the origins of TLDR are murky, though the Merriam-Webster dictionary cites the first known use to be in 2002. The meaning of the acronym is pretty obvious ...