“The ick” is among 3,200 new words and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary so far this year. Referring to the feeling of being overwhelmed by a sudden dislike or loss of attraction for somebody, ...

What exactly is a catch phrase? In his introduction to the first edition of A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, Eric Partridge wisely refused to let himself be drawn into attempting a hard and fast ...

It is, as Fatsis puts it, “the most comprehensive extant repository of the history of American English.” When Noah Webster published his American Dictionary in 1828, he declared it “not only ...

It's easy to search for a word in Google Docs on your phone or computer to find and replace any instance of it. Here's what ...

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.

The Bachelor has been around for decades, giving viewers an entire dictionary of vocabulary to go with it. Pic credit: ABC. The Bachelor has been around for what feels like a thousand years. This show ...