October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

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

In 1789, Noah Webster called on the newly independent United States to claim its own national version of the English language. That is what Noah Webster wrote in 1789 at the age of 31, long before he ...

Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

If you work at your PC, you have a choice between fumbling with aheavy paper dictionary or firing up your browser to surf to one.Talking Merriam-Webster Dictionary makes things easier, keeping ...

The Twitter account for the Merriam-Webster dictionary put out a call asking people to share words in other languages that don't fully translate to English. People came through. The dictionary tweeted ...

No need to study this month to increase your vocabulary. Merriam-Webster added 840 new words to the dictionary – and chances are, you probably know many of them. A bulk of the new entries are already ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s human editors took aim at artificial intelligence (AI) by choosing “slop” as their 2025 Word of the Year. The editors announced slop as their 2025 Word of the Year in ...

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