Discover the Word of the Year 2025 selections from leading dictionary websites like Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ culture,” and now holds a more diminished interest. “Since we have Urban ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

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

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

Whether your spellchecker likes it or not, “astroturfing” is officially a word. At least it is according to the lexicographers behind Dictionary.com, one of the Web’s most popular online (and mobile) ...

We have some new words to describe our hellscape. Dictionary.com added more than 300 new words Tuesday and more than 1,200 new and revised definitions for existing words. The update comes as the ...

Over the years Microsoft Word has played a key role in our professional lives. It is pretty much our go-to application every time we want to prepare an article or a proposal of any sort. Similarly, it ...

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 ...

The word “convivial” is derived from Late Latin convivialis meaning “pertaining to a feast,” from Latin convivium meaning “a feast,” from convivere “to carouse together, live together,” and from the ...