The 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster “Collegiate” dictionary, which will be released on Nov. 18, introduces 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases and idioms to its pages, the publisher announced ...

Complete with thumb notches and a deep red cover, and weighing almost 5 pounds, the 12th edition is the first new edition in ...

Merriam-Webster will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when it releases its first new edition in more than 20 years.

The 12th edition of "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

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 first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

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As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...

Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...