Merriam-Webster’s online definition of "anti-vaxxer" is spreading on social media this month amid outrage over vaccine mandates. The definition of the term was first added to the online dictionary in ...

Merriam-Webster added a ton of new words to the dictionary in 2018 — including phrases from digital technology, some slang, abbreviations, and even a few unexpected casual catchphrases we use daily.

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(Reuters) - "Justice" is what most people sought on Merriam-Webster, among the world's most popular dictionaries, as the U.S. publisher named that principle of being fair as the Word of the Year for ...

Peter Sokolowski is editor at large for Merriam-Webster. What makes a person look up a word? There have been dictionaries of English for about 400 years, but only recently, with the introduction of ...

Springfield-based dictionary giant Merriam Webster has been all about words since way back in the 19 th century. But as editor at large Peter Sokowski explained, since the turn of the 21 st century ...