Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

To bring this story up to the beginnings of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus we know today, George and Charles Merriam opened their printing and bookselling business in Springfield ...

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style game. The original Wordle, created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to find a five-letter word in ...

Dictionaries were removed from library shelves in a Florida school district last year as part of an investigation of more than 1,600 titles for mentions of “sexual conduct” that could violate ...

Nothing I can change. None of my business. What’s for dinner?” Microsoft Word’s thesaurus function brings up these words as related and similar to “inure”: harden, toughen, accustom ...