Merriam-Webster Dictionary has a long-standing tradition of posting the top word of the year, and this year it was “authentic.” The dictionary explained that in 2023, “authentic” had “a substantial ...

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary has caved to the trans agenda. In order to appease woke activists, the dictionary publisher has added a secondary definition of “female” that defines the ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.

In American English, grammar experts prefer "toward" over "towards," along with "backward," "forward" and "afterward," though ...

A Florida school district last month pulled the Merriam-Webster dictionary from library shelves to comply with a state law ...

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according to America's oldest dictionary. Merriam-Webster said it saw a "substantial increase" in online searches for it this year. The interest was "driven by stories and conversations about AI ...

The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman. Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and the author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," took four months to define the word "god." Following is a transcript of the video.