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 ...

PRISTINA -- At least since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, common ground has been all too rare in the Balkans, and, where it exists, it has tended to be a source of bitter ...

Esteemed dictionaries have revealed their top words of the year for 2025. Social media trends and a tense political climate ...

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...

Written abbreviation for "If You Know, You Know": used, for example, on social media, to show that there is a shared joke or shared knowledge with the reader that other people might not understand.

It took about 70 years for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to be completed. Conceived in 1857, the project ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

The Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced website that records new words and their meanings. It began life in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com but has since become an important resource on the Web.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Adelaide author Pip Williams attracted an international bidding war for her inventive, absorbing debut novel, which takes place behind ...

Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Raj Labade in ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’. Photo: Sam Roberts The Dictionary of Lost Words by South Australian author Pip Williams became a surprise international bestseller ...

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 ...