FOR nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica was a bookshelf-busting series of gilt-lettered tomes, often purchased to ...

Naturally, according to a Scripps spokesperson, "All of the words used in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program are pulled from our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary." ...

The American Historical Association, the largest association of professional historians in the U.S., passed a resolution this ...

Britannica Group, as the company is now known, runs websites, including Britannica.com and the online Merriam-Webster ... an official term for making stuff up. (That said, Britannica’s website ...

The 2024 "Words of the Year" were revealed from top dictionaries like Oxford, Merriam-Webster ... searches for the word on the Cambridge Dictionary website. The 2024 Cambridge Dictionary ...

Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School more than a century ago. The struggle for ...

On its website and in official reports to Congress ... She also has been lobbying Merriam-Webster Dictionary to rethink the synonyms with negative connotations it attaches to the term “whistlebl ...

Though the official definition according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is that the Internet is an electronic ... Something that is not allowed on YouTube may be allowed on some other website. The ...

LAST week in this column, the phrase "greener pastures" – an idiom that means a better or more promising situation ...

According to Merriam-Webster, "rejuvenate" is intended for mature audiences. TEMPLE, Texas — The first Word of the Day in the ...

Headline writers have settled on 'awkward' to describe the Jan. 6 election certification — but is that the right word?