Some of the 21st century's newest English words, including "rizz," "dad bod," and "photobomb," have been added to the latest edition of a well-known dictionary. Merriam-Webster, a leading American ...

What did the cheese say to the other cheese when it was about to take a picture? “Smile!” That, dear readers, is an example of what Merriam-Webster would call a “dad joke,” which is to say that it’s ...

SPRINGFIELD — Book \ buk \ n: a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together between a front and back cover. Dictionary maker Merriam-Webster isn’t adding the notation “archaic” to that ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s ...

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Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster found itself in hot water recently after weighing in on an age-old grammatical debate. In an Instagram post, Merriam-Webster said it is "permissible" for people ...

Merriam-Webster recently announced it has added more than 840 new words to its online dictionary. And more than a dozen are food-related — including specific foods, informal spellings, descriptions ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 400 new words and definitions — including fluffernutter, dad bod and vaccine passport. KING: If those questions do not make sense, don't worry. You ...

If you were secretly hoping that words like "selfie," "tweep" and "unfriend" would fail to catch on, prepare to have those hopes dashed: Merriam-Webster just validated all those non-words, along with ...

The public has decided that the ultimate word of gaming celebration, "Woot!" should be Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. The "vast majority" of voters chose "woot," which MWO defines as an ...