NEW YORK — For three months and counting, the term “getting Israeled” has been building support on Urban Dictionary, the popular user-run laboratory of emerging lexicon and slang. According to one of ...

Jawn has officially made the history books, as the all-purpose Philadelphia slang was added to a leading online dictionary this week. Dictionary.com entered jawn into its lexicon on Wednesday, as part ...

“Add oil” has been made an official term in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It follows a long list of other Cantonese terms and phrases to have entered the mainstream “Hong Kong English” lexicon ...

Imagine that it is your job to explain what everyone else means when they use certain words, whether the term in question is escalator or nationalism. That is the task of the lexicographer, the human ...

Apple's stock Dictionary app is in the spotlight this week after a Massachusetts teen took issue with a derogatory definition of the word "gay." But not every Mac shows the same definition — and, of ...

As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...

Kennedy Mitchum, 22, said the dictionary definition needed to be expanded to include systemic racism. The dictionary’s editors agreed. By Christine Hauser Merriam-Webster is revising its entry on ...