Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

Johnson defined ‘oats' as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"-but ...

We give you an obscure word with four definitions-one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these ...

Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and more terms have officially joined the Cambridge Dictionary in its growing list of new 2025 words.

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An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online ...

The Collins English Dictionary defines the word “woman” as “an adult female human being.” But this past August, a tempest began on Twitter when a user posted two responses written to people who had ...

The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Oxford University Press has changed the definition of the word "woman" in its dictionaries after an online petition called on them to remove "sexist" language. Oxford lexicographers examined ...