Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...

Long before Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, the language grumps were grumbling about the downfall of the written word. Dictionary.com had recently ...

In news that has truly confirmed I’m not ‘with it’, Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year is 67, and the internet is riddled with confusion. In case you’re out of the loop or not a ...

It's corking good stuff. “The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and ...

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

It describes "anger, discord, and polarisation" online.

Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. The book is the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, and the general editor is Anne Soukhanov. She's been ...

LONDON -- It's been in print for more than a century, but in the future the Oxford English Dictionary -- the authoritative guide to the English language -- may only be available online. Oxford ...