What is the hardest word to define? What’s the longest word in English? These are just some of the questions Merriam-Webster editor Kory Stamper has to field when she tells people about her job. It’s ...

Here’s a “life hack” for all you “wordies” out there: If you want to stay abreast of linguistic trends, take a look at the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added to its dictionary. The publisher ...

More than two centuries after Noah Webster published the first American dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, the publishing house that bears his name is developing a line of ...

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster announced on Monday that its 2018 “word of the year” is “justice.” The word saw a spike in searches on the publisher’s website this year, which was looked up 74% ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...