On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

Long before Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, the language grumps were grumbling about the downfall of the written word. Dictionary.com had recently ...

Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. The book is the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, and the general editor is Anne Soukhanov. She's been ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...

Multiple words, such as “delulu” and “skibidi” that many people dismiss as nonsense internet slang used by kids, have just been added to the Cambridge Dictionary. These slang terms are among the over ...

Among the 6,000 or so words added to the dictionary over the past year, these internet neologisms have now asserted their place in the English language, whether you like it or not. Most of these words ...

If the lexicon of the modern day Internet has left you scratching your head, don’t fret, Internet culture evolves at a breakneck speed, with apps like TikTok and platforms like Twitter serving as ...

Dictionaries reward you for paying attention, both to the things you consume and to your own curiosity. By Rachel del Valle I can’t remember how old I was when I first learned the words denotation ...

Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life ...