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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, has launched an application optimized for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The dictionary giant has joined forces with Paragon Software Group, ...

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.

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 ...

Optimizes core Merriam-Webster APIs to create a singular lexical resource with maximal parts-of-dictionary-entry coverage. E.g. running 800 words from an official spelling bee list shows the following ...

In what is being called an incredible win for diversity, US dictionary Merriam-Webster has agreed to revise its definition of the word ‘racism’. In what is being called an incredible win for diversity ...

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.

For more than 150 years, in print and now online, Merriam-Webster has been America’s leading and most-trusted provider of language information. This package allows you to lookup a word and displays ...