Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

The 2025 Word of the Year has been used by kids and teens alike. Dictionary.com has officially revealed its newest Word of the Year. The online dictionary announced Wednesday that "67" is the 2025 ...

"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...

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 ...

From “girl dinner” to “bed rotting," it can sometimes feel tough to understand the ever expanding lexicon used to describe modern life. To keep up with the times, Dictionary.com added or updated more ...

How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...

There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...