The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative AI, landed it Merriam-Webster's ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

WASHINGTON — Dictionary.com announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and it may sound familiar to parents of school-aged children. The online dictionary revealed on Tuesday that its Word of the Year is "6 ...

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

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian ...

A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...