On February 1, 1884, the very first part of what would become the most famous dictionary in history was published. It was ...

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Do you feel like you know Alan Carr and what he would say or do? What about Taylor Swift, or even Donald Trump? The new Cambridge Dictionary word of the year for 2025 has been revealed: "parasocial" - ...

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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 ...

"Parasocial" is the Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year, defined as a relationship felt by someone between themselves and a famous person they do not know. Its examples include the parasocial ...

"Vibe-coding" is Collins Dictionary's "word of the year" for 2025. Collins Dictionary classifies it as a noun, not a verb. The term was originally coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

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Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis ...

In total, Cambridge Dictionary has added 6,212 new words, phrases and definitions in the past year Anybody who is chronically online will likely have no trouble recognizing some of the new words that ...