Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary hit shelves this November, words that were once defined in basements, at the bar stool or on Urban Dictionary’s back pages got the official legacy lexicographical ...

TikTok is evolving from an easy-to-read ecosystem into a complex entertainment center and marketplace. What trends and ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

The Words of the Year signal something quite depressing. In 2025, the world’s leading language authorities did something ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year has already outlived its usefulness.

In 2025, the line between brand messaging and cultural commentary continued to blur. As the year ends, let’s look back at the ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

The most popular slang words of 2024 have been revealed, and the results are hardly surprising for anyone who is chronically online.Whether you've been having a Brat summer (spoiler, this somehow didn ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ culture,” and now holds a more diminished interest. “Since we have Urban ...

Once upon a time, new words made the world feel larger. They came from science, from art, from discovery. They named planets, ideas, emotio.