Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is one that the dictionary suggests unifies both sides of the aisle. The dictionary publisher said Monday that “polarization” is its 2024 word of the year ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as ...

In Merriam-Webster’s tenth edition, the dictionary defines the noun female as “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs.” The change in the online edition to ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.

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The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman. Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in ...

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The US' oldest dictionary, Merriam-Webster, a direct descendant of the pioneering 1806 dictionary by Noah Webster, has picked “polarisation” as the word of 2024. The dictionary said on its ...

“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 20 years or so ...