There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

I’m a words geek. I love words, their sound, their meanings, their power to teach, calm, and convey any and everything. So, I’m always excited to see new words stake their claim in the language, as ...

Dictionary.com will no longer use the word "slave" as a noun to identify a person. (Photo: Getty Creative) As part of its ongoing efforts to feature language that is more inclusive and reflective of ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

From “girl dinner” to “bed rotting," it can sometimes feel tough to understand the ever expanding lexicon used to describe modern life. To keep up with the times, Dictionary.com added or updated more ...

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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 ...

Popular online dictionary platform Dictionary.com has officially announced its annual word of the year, and they’ve made a very mindful choice. Their 2024 Word of the Year is the viral sensation ...

Logophiles are “devastated” after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years. The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use ...

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 ...