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

Popular online dictionary platform Dictionary.com has officially announced its annual word of the year, and they’ve made a very mindful choice. Their 2024 Word of the Year is the viral sensation ...

"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" ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

Dictionary.com has crowned demure its Word of the Year for 2024, just ahead of brainrot and brat in the battle for supremacy in the pop culture lexicon. Extreme weather, Midwest nice and weird also ...

The quest to define and canonize new words in American English is as old as the country itself. In the new book "Unabridged: ...

The English language is always changing. New words end up in the dictionary, and older words fall out of favor to the point that they become obsolete. But sometimes a term just explodes, and suddenly ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

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 ...

“Hallucinate” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year — and no, you’re not imagining things. The online reference site said in an announcement Tuesday that this year’s pick refers to a specific ...

Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story like all ...

Dictionary.com has chosen a term new to its online reference service for its Word of the Year – a word that, it says, “acts as a powerful prism through which to view the defining events and ...