Today, Merriam-Webster announces its free iPhone app, featuring Voice Search. The voice search feature, powered by Dragon voice recognition technology, allows users to look up a word by speaking it ...

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 ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed ...

Merriam-Webster has unveiled a significant update to one of its most popular dictionaries, introducing more than 5,000 new words in its first hard-copy revision in over two decades. The 12th edition ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

The Burlington Free Press had the distinction of being quoted by the dictionary. On Wednesday, Merriam-Webster sent out its word of the day: stir-crazy. In a section called "stir-crazy in context," ...