To assist designers, merchants and students, in 1916 the Fairchild Publishing Co. announced the release of its first ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

Don't let these obscure words fade away! Here are some silly, fun-sounding words that have disappeared from dictionaries.

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary.

The first dictionary in English was a law dictionary. King James I ordered the second English law dictionary to be suppressed and burned. Another early example was compiled by a writer focused on ...

Last week the Merriam-Webster dictionary dealt with threats over gender definitions. So this week I interviewed its lexicographer Peter Sokolowski.

A Detroit hair salon owner has added representation to the natural haircare space with the first-ever dictionary for natural hair.

Noah Webster was the patriot armed with a pen. He defined 12,000 new words in the wake of the American Revolution, using language to establish a new national identity.

The full ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française has been presented to France's President Macron.