The new edition might remind people that a physical book from a source with a two-century-old pedigree might be more ...

Merriam-Webster announced in September it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

“Now we’re in this weird limbo where people want the dictionary but they don’t want to pay for it, because they’re used to getting things for free on the internet,” he said. Merriam-Webster’s website ...

Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new ...

Dictionary-publisher Merriam-Webster is taking President Donald Trump to task for his use of the term "scot-free." In an angry tweet about his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump says Cohen is getting ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

Since we were tossed into a surreal world in 2016—you know, that blur of a year when Trump was somehow elected as leader of the free world—Merriam-Webster's dictionary has become a social media ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

NEW YORK — Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over ...