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

Manifesting freedom from brain rot’ and other attempts to encase our aspirations in words” FOR several years now, at yearend, ...

It seems to come earlier every year: publishers and dictionaries choosing their “word of the year”. Initially intended to sum ...

Between endless doomscrolling and nonstop negative headlines, a New Mexico political science professor said it's no surprise ...

In a conversation with young adults about brain rot and polarization– Oxford and Merriam-Webster's respective picks– they ...

For almost 250 years the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been a widely used resource to define, interpret and properly use the ...

“Brat” is no longer negative. It now means an “estetik” trend defined by party-animal antics, cool-girl style and messy ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary chose "menorah" as its Word of the Day for Thursday. Its definition of the word is stated as ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had dictionaries of English for 420 years and it’s only been in the last ...

“The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words,” the Merriam-Webster editor continued. “We’ve had dictionaries of English for 420 years and it’s only been in the last ...