You Use This 3-Letter Word Every Day, But It Has 645 Meanings in English

A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Here’s How the Oxford English Dictionary Chooses New Words

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...
USA Today

'Hangry' added to Oxford English Dictionary, because irritable hunger happens

Hangry? Oxford English Dictionary understands. The word was one of more than 1,100 entries added to the dictionary in its most recent update, Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries, noted.
The New York Times

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...

How ancient curses are helping create a Celtic dictionary

We speak with a professor in Wales who's working on an ancient Celtic dictionary.

The Slow Decline of Urban Dictionary

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...
BBC

Using a dictionary

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...
CNN

Oxford dictionaries change ‘sexist’ and outdated definitions of the word ‘woman’

Even the dictionary can be sexist and out of date, especially when it comes to how a “woman” is described. Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for “woman” in its dictionaries, ...