In Merriam-Webster’s tenth edition, the dictionary defines the noun female as “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs.” The change in the online edition to ...

Archive copies of the Collegiate Dictionary rest on a bookshelf at the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary publisher in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year is ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and the author of "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries," took four months to define the word "god." Following is a transcript of the video.

Merriam-Webster chooses each word of the year based on lookup data—how often a word was searched in its online dictionary. Last year, the winning word was “ authentic ,” while ...