Merriam-Webster declared "polarization" its 2024 word of the year, reflecting the deep divisions highlighted by the U.S. presidential elect...

Discover Merriam-Webster's 2023 'Authentic' as the Word of the Year, echoing our quest for truth in a world tangled with AI, celebrity cult...

The word that has topped the list for 2023 is 'authentic.' The word 'authentic' has seen a search spike around the globe. This time around,...

The word has been searched every single day of the year.

The word is a compound from the Greek 'o mikron', meaning 'small o'.

At Merriam-Webster, lookups for 'vaccine' increased 601% over 2020.

The coronavirus pandemic brought on gargantuan language changes.

Pandemic is a combination of “pan,” for all, and “demos,” for people or population.

Kennedy Mitchum contacted the US dictionary to update the term that hadn't changed since 1847.

Navneeth Murali correctly spelled the word 'flipe' to win the contest.

Feminism is defined as "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes", according to the dictionary.

All those with a penchant for neologisms should keep this important distinction in mind when formulating and laying claim to catchwords and...

Over 1,000 new words have been added to the dictionary.

For the first time, Merriam-Webster named on December 15 the suffix 'ism' as its 2015 word of the year.

In an election year when adjectives, epithets and sobriquets flew thick and fast, reflecting what's on the minds of Americans,"bailout" and...

In an election year when adjectives, epithets and sobriquets flew thick and fast, reflecting what's on the minds of Americans,"bailout" and...

India's top actors may find the description of the Hindi film industry as Bollywood "derogatory" and "humiliating" but the word has just be...