The Oxford English Dictionary recently announced the addition of more than 6,000 new words, and the ones making headlines are ...

Oxford University Press changed its definition of the word 'woman' to include more positive ways to describe a female. The word 'man' has also been updated to include gender-neutral terms and ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words including slang terms like “skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, ...

Skibidi is a term borrowed from the YouTube animated series “Skibidi Toilet.” It has chameleonic powers in that it “has ...

Katherine Connor Martin, an editor at Oxford Dictionaries, told the New York Times, "When we were looking through the evidence, it was just clear that issues relating to the climate were running ...

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, with a first version due in three years, aims to do just that.

Oxford Dictionary is criticized for its sexist synonyms for the word "woman," which a petition with more than 30,000 signatures wants to change.

That's what would be put in as an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary," Williams says. This is where the Oxford differentiates itself from Australia's Macquarie or Collins dictionaries.

Oxford is just one of several major dictionary companies vying to define the word of the year. Last month, Merriam-Webster selected "gaslighting" as its 2022 word of the year, and Collins English ...