Merriam-Webster is "wordmaxxing," with more than a thousand new words and definitions added to its dictionary.

Merriam-Webster added more than 1,000 new words to the dictionary Tuesday, and some of them will look familiar to those in healthcare. Here are five words form science and medicine that were just ...

Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.” By Michael Levenson Merriam-Webster, the venerable dictionary that traces its roots to a time before ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...