Editor David Cannadine takes us behind the scenes at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) to examine why this late Victorian Institution with thousands upon thousands of detailed and ...

“Twerk,” “Selfie,” and “Emoji” Are Now In The Oxford Dictionaries Online Forty-three new Internet culture-steeped words have joined the Oxford Dictionaries Online, including terms like ...

The cloud computing revolution remains one of the most influential tech trends in recent years. Where it was once normal ...

A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its latest update.

Jeremy Corbyn was said to have benefited from a "youthquake" after a surge in support from millennials Oxford Dictionaries has deemed "youthquake" the 2017 word of the year, reflecting what it ...

As part of a project to revise every word in the Oxford English Dictionary, the latest quarterly OED update published today marks the centenary of the outbreak of the first World War. Editors have ...

Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, explains that modern dictionaries aim to record how language is actually used by people, and are based on a huge ...

TEXTING teens have helped to make “emoji” the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year. Instead of picking a traditional word, staff have this year chosen a pictograph – the ‘Face with Tear ...

It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce ...

Campaigners and academics have called on Oxford University Press to change what they say are "sexist" dictionary definitions of the word "woman". They say claiming that words like "bitch" or "maid ...

A legendary college town. Recently cited by Yahoo as the #3 College Town in the United States. Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami's main campus, is a picturesque town brimming with ideas and opportunities.