Merriam-Webster has unveiled a significant update to one of its most popular dictionaries, introducing more than 5,000 new ...

From "rizz" and "dad bod" to "doomscroll" and "beast mode," check out the latest additions to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

A California man has been arrested and charged with making LGBTQ-related threats against the dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. Federal prosecutors say the threats were published online and ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced it has added more than 840 new words to its online dictionary. And more than a dozen are food-related — including specific foods, informal spellings, descriptions ...

Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries. New words include ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 400 new words and definitions — including fluffernutter, dad bod and vaccine passport. KING: If those questions do not make sense, don't worry. You ...

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Twelfth Edition The iconic Collegiate Dictionary has been extensively revised and redesigned ...

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and ...

However, the definition for "irregardless" has been included in Merriam-Webster's Unabridged edition since 1934. In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true ...

We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected ...

Dictionary-publisher Merriam-Webster is taking President Donald Trump to task for his use of the term "scot-free." In an angry tweet about his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump says Cohen is getting ...