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Dictionary

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'Rage bait' named Oxford University Press word of year

  • Dec 1, 2025

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025

  • Nov 18, 2025

Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year

  • Oct 29, 2025
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'Skibidi' among 6,000 words added to Cambridge Dictionary

  • Aug 18, 2025

'Demure' named as 2024 word of the year by Dictionary.com

  • Nov 26, 2024

'Rizz' crowned as Oxford word of the year

  • Dec 4, 2023

'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022

  • Nov 28, 2022

ICYMI, pumpkin spice among new Merriam-Webster entries

  • Sep 10, 2022

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Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of new words

  • Nov 16, 2022
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Word of the year 2020: Oxford English Dictionary couldn't pick just one

  • Nov 23, 2020
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Merriam-Webster adds nonbinary pronoun 'they' to dictionary

  • Sep 17, 2019
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'Hangry': Merriam-Webster adds 840 new words to dictionary

  • Sep 5, 2018
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Forbes: Kylie Jenner set to be youngest 'self-made' billionaire; backlash ensues

  • Jul 12, 2018
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Merriam-Webster weighs in on Bud Light catchphrase 'Dilly dilly!'

  • Jan 14, 2018
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VIDEO: Most commonly mispronounced words

  • Oct 22, 2016

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Man arrested for allegedly threatening to bomb Merriam-Webster offices over definition of female

Jeremy David Hanso is accused of sending "a multitude of anonymous threatening and despicable messages related to the LGBTQ community."

  • Apr 25, 2022

Oxford English Dictionary couldn't pick just one 'word of the year' for 2020

"It quickly became apparent that 2020 is not a year that could neatly be accommodated in one single 'word of the year,."

  • Nov 23, 2020
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Oxford dictionaries change 'sexist' and outdated definitions of the word 'woman'

The dictionary definition of "woman" will now depict women in a positive and active manner according to Oxford University Press.

  • Nov 11, 2020

Oxford names 'climate emergency' its 2019 'Word of the Year'

Amid historic flooding in Venice, Italy, and catastrophic bushfires decimating Australia's koala population, Oxford has named its 2019 Word of the Year "climate emergency."

  • Nov 21, 2019

Merriam-Webster adds nonbinary pronoun 'they' to dictionary

Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that the word "they" can be used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary along with three other separate definitions.

  • Sep 17, 2019