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COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Word of the Day: BallyragBallyrag is a word meaning to bully or harass someone. It involves teasing or nagging rather than physical force. This term is informal and...- Word of the Day: FortuitousFortuitous describes events that happen by chance, unintentionally, and often with a beneficial outcome. While its core meaning is accident...
- Word of the day: SimonizeSimonize meaning: Simonize, a word born from a car wax brand, means to polish to a high shine. This term is now used for more than just car...
- Best German to English dictionaries to power up your vocabularyThe article presents you with the top German to English dictionaries available, catering to learners and enthusiasts of the German language...
- Goblin mode, gaslight, permacrisis: A look at 2022's words of the yearIn a year when the world opened up again, and the pandemic and lockdowns engendered in us new world views and priorities, a renewed sense o...
- Dictionary.com picks 'Allyship' as Word of the Year 2021The site offers two definitions for allyship.
- Sticking to the digital trend, Collins Dictionary picks NFT as word of the yearNFT is short for non-fungible token.
- View: Covid-19 has changed the way we communicateIn these dispiriting times, ending a message with ‘Cheers’ or ‘Regards,’ or even ‘Best/Warm/Kind regards,’ seems inadequate. Compassion and...
- Collins Dictionary picks 'lockdown' as Word of the Year, thanks to the pandemic'Coronavirus', 'social distancing', 'self-isolate' and 'furlough' were included in the list.
- Words that traipse their way into languageTailor-making language to fit what’s trending socially and politically.
- 'Jugaad', bae, OK: New words land on the Scrabble board'Ze' and a host of other Hindi terms are among 2862 new words that were recently inducted into the official Scrabble dictionary.
- Toxic, misinformation, nomophobia: Words that had the world's attention in 2018Global Language Monitor (GLM), which tracks top trending words, named 'The Moment' its top word of 2018.
- Other tongues still add spice to englishA few of them seem to have immediate relevance to Indian users of English, though our own regional languages also regularly add masala to a...
- Dictionaries have it in for the TrumpsIt remains to be seen whether Oxford and Merriam-Webster also choose words associated with the US First Family. That would be quite a lingu...
- 'Anna', 'achcha', and 70 other Indian words make it to the Oxford DictionaryMost of the Indian words added to the dictionary pertain to relationships, culture and food.
- My Word, Brexit Trumps Trumpism‘Throwing shade’ (another contender for 2016’s top word, meaning public expression of contempt) will surely be deemed by some to be but an ...
- A suffix, an emoji among 2015's top wordsFor the first time, Merriam-Webster named on December 15 the suffix 'ism' as its 2015 word of the year.
- Twerking and emoji are now completely valid words to use in ScrabbleWith the newest additions to the official Scrabble word list, even a total "newb" can "lol" their way to a win.
- Top words of 2014: Vape, culture, photobomb, overshareTerms like 'vape', 'culture', 'photobomb', 'overshare' and 'heart emoji' were significant throughout the past 12 months and have been named...
- Why call it Indian-English or Nigerian-English? Indian or Nigerian would doWords from all sorts of languages & sources finding a place in what is called the Collins English Dictionary, begs the question whether the...
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