Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

Earlier this year, millennials were left feeling like OAPs after being told that a number of 'slang words' from their ...

As the award celebrates its 20th anniversary, Fiona McPherson, a senior editor in the New Words team of the Oxford English ...

The 1944 thriller 'Gaslight' gave rise to a useful new word that describes coercive, toxic relationships in personal life and ...

Oragious (pronounced or-AY-juhss) is an English borrowing of the French word orageux, meaning stormy or tempestuous.

The Oxford University Press (OUP) announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make the Sanskrit ...

The noun beffa is often used as part of a popular Italian expression: oltre al danno anche la beffa, which is usually ...

Launches trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary in partnership withUttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthanam (UPSS) New Delhi: ...

The lines between what’s morbidly fascinating and sexually appealing are blurred when it comes to this Spanish word.

The Telugu language faces significant challenges due to a preference for English, lack of vocabulary standardization, and ...

In response to Trudeau's statement, "Once again, we see the leader of the Opposition is pushing a 'brokenist' vision of ...