Fewer than 2,000 Seminole warriors held off an American force that eventually numbered more than 30,000 troops. It became the ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its "Collegiate Dictionary." The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds.

The word “revelry” is a noun defined as lively and noisy festivities, which often include consumption of lots of alcohol. The ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Browser Extension is a free, open-source tool that lets you quickly find English-to-English definitions for any word or phrase. With its simple and user-friendly ...

Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it happens, is also one of the 194-year-old dictionary's top words of 2025. "We define slop as ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed ...

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The government is considering a draft definition of anti-Muslim hatred which does not include the term "Islamophobia". The BBC has seen the form of words from the ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...