Many words in the English language that seem remarkably common have a surprising secondary definition known mostly to scientists in different disciplines. Here are 18 words drawn from the American ...

Author and software engineer Thomas Dimson has created an AI dictionary that generates fake words and definitions. The project, like many similar ones released online recently, uses sophisticated AI ...

Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

While some of them might be enough to make you say "oof," the over 300 new words and definitions added to Dictionary.com during its most recent round of updates reflect the realities of our rapidly ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’ “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we ...

The new online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction probes the speculative corners of the lexicographic universe. By Jennifer Schuessler “Warp speed” may be a term of the moment, thanks to the ...

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This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

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