There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Unscramble.com isn't just big. It's ridiculously big. We're talking about a dictionary so comprehensive that it includes words you didn't know existed, words you couldn't spell in a million years, and ...

If you’ve been totally ‘with it’ when it comes to Internet pop culture, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Urban Dictionary. It’s a site where people come up with quirky phrases and their ...

The Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced website that records new words and their meanings. It began life in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com but has since become an important resource on the Web.

Are you greenwashing? How much sleep debt do you have? If you're unfamiliar with those terms you're probably not the only one, but they're now recognized by the most famous online dictionary.

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

As of 2020, the English language has more than 170,000 words that are regularly used. However, the active vocabulary of the average individual is just 20,000 words. This means there are over 150,000 ...

A first-ever fully Irish dictionary has been launched in a ‘historic moment’ for the language. The launch means that anyone ...

World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...