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Merriam-Webster announced Wednesday that it has added 690 new words, phrases and acronyms to its dictionary. Many of the additions are humourous slang words and phrases that originated from internet ...

It’s time to zhuzh your vocabulary. Merriam-Webster announced 690 words and definitions added to its dictionary in 2023. The words range from colloquial phrases like doggo and “beast mode” to ...

The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more trustworthy than a random search. Stefan Fatsis is the author of “Unabridged: The ...

If you work at your PC, you have a choice between fumbling with aheavy paper dictionary or firing up your browser to surf to one.Talking Merriam-Webster Dictionary makes things easier, keeping ...

Yahoo!'s toolbar, called the Yahoo! Companion, lets you search the site's American Heritage Dictionary. But we recommend the dictionary toolbar offered by Merriam-Webster (free). This handy add-on ...

A sampling of 10 new terms that received official status. — -- Word lovers rejoice! Merriam-Webster added more than 1,000 entries to its dictionary on Tuesday, with terms from all corners of the ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Less ambitious—but still worthy of a download—is the free Merriam-Webster Toolbar. Highlight any term on any Web page or enter it in the search box and a new window pops up containing the relevant ...