There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded the lo-fi website, internet lingo was making its way into the mainstream faster than the slang of any earlier, offline communities. Users submitted their own comprehensive definitions and colorful example sentences.

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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 prior, was sworn in as the 45th president of the United ...

"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" means "reserved, quiet, or modest," but the reaction to ...

Words popularized by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including "skibidi," "delulu," and "tradwife" are among new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary.

We spoke with Dictionary.com’s social media team, which has a lot more to say than just what words mean. The website’s Twitter account now goes far beyond vocabulary-building blasts, seizing instead on words embedded in the public discourse–and ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of Irish at all levels."

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The three-year project,

Cherokee Nation leaders and citizens are celebrating the launch of a new Cherokee language dictionary app, created through a collaboration between the tribe and Kiwa Digital, a development agency based in New Zealand.