The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update and amid ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster's new update features COVID-19-era words, corporate-culture words and plenty of slang Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Merriam-Webster said Monday it has launched a subscription service that provides online access to the unabridged version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The new service, available at ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster took the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries. New words include “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.” ...