I felt a little awkward after writing my column Monday about having an emotional attachment to my dictionary. I wondered if I made too big of a deal about ditching it after 26 years. After all, it’s ...

I ended my relationship with a longtime companion this week. I finally packed away my dictionary. When I started my journalism career about 26 years ago, I never would have thought my desk would be ...

While I have not considered myself part of the Youth for quite a few years now, I did not yet feel like I was an Old—until today, when I found out that Dictionary.com had added the word “yeet” to its ...

Dictionary.com has selected a word of the year for 2025 that is not even technically a word – it's more of an inside joke ...

Aramide Damilola Ottun is a budding Yoruba actress blessed with both brain and beauty. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Lagos. She’s a producer of two ...

"67" — pronounced "six-seven" and not "sixty-seven" — has officially been crowned the new Word of the Year for 2025 by ...

There was a time when I couldn’t work/write without my physical, hardcover dictionary at my side. It’s not that I can’t spell, or that my vocabulary is scant. My dictionary has always been a ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...