"Hanitizer" and "boo-blerries" are making a permanent home in family lexicons, where accidental rebrandings by toddlers are ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ones ...

The Dictionary.com Chrome Extension makes going to a dictionary website redundant. Dictionary.com Extension is for everyone who isn’t blessed with a memory like the Oxford English Dictionary. If ...

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 ...

Language is ever-changing. New words are constantly being added to the dictionary, and some definitions even shift over time.

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

I wanted to do something a little different for the last Glossary post of the summer. We've defined a whole lot of words this summer (check the glossary tag to see all of them), and hopefully it has ...

Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a noun or a verb, and has more than 600 senses (or meanings), according to the ...

Over the years Microsoft Word has played a key role in our professional lives. It is pretty much our go-to application every time we want to prepare an article or a proposal of any sort. Similarly, it ...