NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular “Collegiate” dictionary. The company has added more than 5,000 terms. Here’s a few of them with definitions — and ...

Merriam-Webster announced this week that it is publishing a new edition of its iconic Collegiate Dictionary. It's the first ...

NEW YORK — Attention, word nerds: This is your bonus round, courtesy of Merriam-Webster. In addition to elevating “surreal” in 2016 to word of the year, the dictionary company on Tuesday added about 1 ...

Merriam-Webster announced in September it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary known of late for its killer Twitter account, has added 250 new words and definitions to its pages of record. As usual with new words and definitions, they reveal a lot ...

If such words cause anxiety, some relief may be found in dawn chorus: “the singing of wild birds that closely precedes and follows sunrise especially in spring and summer.” “Some of these words will ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into ...

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Discover the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2022—and why it might have gained so much momentum. Whether you consider yourself a word nerd who’s always looking for new words in the dictionary or ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...

The 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster “Collegiate” dictionary, which will be released on Nov. 18, introduces 5,000 new ...

Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries. New words include ...