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Scrabble pros say the latest addition of more than 500 new words to the game's official dictionary does little for them or the sport.

Oxford opened up the word of the year selection to an online vote for the first time. The result? Goblin mode makes history.

Oxford Dictionary has announced "goblin mode" as its choice for 2022's Word of the Year after it opened voting to the public. The term is used to describe a type of behavior that is unapologetically lazy and self-indulgent. CNN senior data reporter...

The definition of woman, which previously represented the longstanding view on sex, now states that a woman is "an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth."

"Woman" is Dictionary.com's word of the year -- a word so simple and so common but nonetheless, according to the site, "inseparable from the story of 2022."

Cambridge Dictionary has just revised its definitions of “man” and “woman."

A new finding that humans can correctly interpret the gestures of chimps and bonobos adds to growing research that suggests that human language may have evolved from a dictionary of hand and body signals

“Seen through the lens of today’s society and values, the definition of beauty hasn’t aged well."

"They accused me of obscene exhibitionism. According to the dictionary that implies sexual intent and [that] has nothing to do with what I was doing," Alejandro Colomar has said.

The digital lexicon added 313 new words in an attempt to stay on top of relevant slang terms in the zeitgeist.

"People who subscribe to Merriam-Webster Red™ will get exclusive access to the real definitions," Merriam-Webster wrote in the joke tweet.

Last week the Merriam-Webster dictionary dealt with threats over gender definitions. So this week I interviewed its lexicographer Peter Sokolowski.

A fan of the trivia show tweeted to the champ-turned-host, claiming that the answer for the $200 question under the "Potent Potable Rhyme Time" category did not actually rhyme.

Just look at Urban Dictionary, Sara.

"If you look in the dictionary for the word 'buffoon,' tell me what picture comes up," snapped the mayor during a press conference at City Hall.

The word-defining platform recently announced it would be adding numerous terms to help lovers of the English language "span the galaxy of modern life."

“There are not enough words in the English dictionary that I know to accurately explain how thankful we are for her selfless sacrifice.”

“I think this story would be found under Self Entitlement in the dictionary," one commenter wrote.

The dictionary definition for “manufactured run” might now have to include Oswaldo Cabrera’s headshot.

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term “brain rot” is defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state” as it relates to overdosing on online...