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

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

Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...

"Cozzie livs" — a light-hearted play on the term "cost of living" — has been named the 2023 Word of the Year by Macquarie Dictionary. After more than a year of rampant price rises and soaring interest ...

For some, dictionaries are more than writing tools. They are doorways to discoveries.

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions arranged in alphabetical order. In an English dictionary you'll find words beginning with ‘a’ at the front and ‘z’ at the back. There ...

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An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of Irish at all levels." ...

The Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language represents a breakthrough in linguistic research, built on a scale and ...

The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950s A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. Assyrian and Babylonian - ...

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’ “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we ...