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

Merriam-Webster has announced its 2021 Word of the Year and, surprise, surprise, it’s not “floccinaucinihilipilification.” No, instead, the winner is the word “vaccine,” which beat out over 470,000 ...

Last week the Merriam-Webster dictionary dealt with threats over gender definitions. So this week I interviewed its lexicographer Peter Sokolowski. Peter: “The pandemic brought new definitions. Like ...

"They" can be used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary. Merriam-Webster has added another definition for the word "they" that can be used to refer to a single person whose gender ...

The publishing company noted that the word holds particular significance both as a medical term and a vehicle for ideological conflict. "For many, the word symbolized a possible return to the lives we ...

You may want to yeet your old Merriam-Webster book, as the publishing company decided to level up and serve lewks by including 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary. In a move that could be seen ...

Merriam-Webster Dictionary will be updating its definition of the word “racism” after a complaint from one Missouri woman, reports said on Tuesday. Kennedy Mitchum, 22, led the charge for the ...