On a recent episode of NPR's Book of the Day podcast, Stefan Fastis, author of Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the ...

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

WASHINGTON — Dictionary.com announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and it may sound familiar to parents of school-aged children. The online dictionary revealed on Tuesday that its Word of the Year is "6 ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

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 dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.