Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 690 new words to the English dictionary from 'beast mode' and 'doggo' to 'smishing' and 'zhuzh'.

Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster reports that it selected the word over contenders such as ...

Merriam-Webster announced the addition of new words and terms this week, including popular slang, social media terms -- and even a word that was first coined on an episode of "The Simpsons." ...

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'authentic.' That says a lot about 2023 "Authentic" was one of this year's most looked-up words, according to the lexical leader.

A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is "authentic." ...

The Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Getty Images This was the year of artificial intelligence, for sure, but also a moment when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI suffered a ...

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 ...

Outside of Merriam-Webster, Oxford also named its Word of the Year recently: "brain rot." The noun is used to describe the deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, sometimes seen ...

Discover the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2022—and why it might have gained so much momentum. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World. Search terms ...

FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is ...

FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is ...