For some, dictionaries are more than writing tools. They are doorways to discoveries.

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

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of ...

The Dictionary website’s domain has been registered since 1995, and for the majority of that time, it’s had a strong relationship with its customer base. Users with a Dictionary.com account were able ...