There were seven such injuries in the NBA this season, when the normal average is 1.3 – is it a fluke, or a trend?

If adorbs and fave are part of your everyday vocabulary, you now have official permission to use them Slang is ...

Way to remember i.e. = in. essence. e.g. = example. given. The Online Etymology Dictionary echoed Merriam-Webster's definitions of the two abbreviations and added that "e.g." originated in the 1680s.

Merriam-Webster said "blog" was the word that people have asked to be defined or explained most often over the last 12 months. The word will now appear in the 2005 version of Merriam-Webster's printed ...

Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large, told AP, “Polarization means division, but it's a very specific kind of division. Polarization means that we are tending toward the extremes ...

A Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is displayed in a bookstore November 10, 2003. Merriam-Webster has named "polarization" as its 2024 Word of the Year. Tim Boyle/Getty Images ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as ...

Merriam-Webster, an American dictionary that logs 100 million page views a month on its website, chooses its word of the year based on data tracking a rise in search and usage.

Merriam-Webster has revealed 200 new words for the dictionary's 2024 edition, including Gen-Z slang words, foods, nutritional and economical terms, politics, and phrases associated with social media.

WEBSTER'S Dictionary is so well known on both sides of the Atlantic that it is unnecessary to do much more than note the appearance of the present edition. The work was published originally in ...

In an age where forces from AI to Donald Trump have left Americans doubting the truth, US dictionary Merriam-Webster says that 2023’s most looked-up word was “authentic.” ...