Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

Did you know that slavery is technically still legal in the United States? Or were you ever taught about the history of colonialism, or the Battle of Blair Mountain? In many school districts, ...

The dictionary includes over 800 key words. The thematic range of the majority of key words are marked out by three overlapping areas: religion, social and economic history, and art and science... The ...

Following the terror attacks that took place Sept. 11, 2001, people across the country began searching Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the same word. The ...

The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago. By Pippa Bailey The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition ...

Every so often, a new word (or canon of words) gets added to Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Following popular usage and a socially-acceptable, widely circulated and accepted definition, the newest term ...