A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word 'Run' holds 645 distinct meanings in the Oxford English Dictionary’s upcoming ...

BRUSSELS--Twenty-three Japanese words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the March 2024 update, and some entry definitions are bound to strike Japanese readers as downright odd. On its ...

Language, like the humans who deploy it, has an organic quality: it grows, decays, ages, withers, and evolves. The Oxford English Dictionary, which is the definitive measure of the English language, ...

Precious Brady Davis says that she uses the label trans* to describe herself because it’s “undefinable.” While that may be true in some senses, the experts at the Oxford English Dictionary have still ...

The original Oxford English Dictionary, edited by the great lexicographer James Murray, was never meant to be a mere dictionary. Murray wanted to account for every sense of every word in standard ...

The Oxford English Dictionary, currently a 20 volume, 750-pound monstrosity, has been the authoritive word on the words of the English language for 126 years. The OED3, the first new edition since ...

Do you know where the drink "Bloody Mary" got its name? Or when the term "identity theft" was first used? If you do, then editors of the Oxford English Dictionary want to hear from you. The OED, as it ...

Hangry is defined as "bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger." — -- Anyone who has ever felt so hungry to the point of getting angry can finally associate that feeling with an official ...

A fusty old tome? Fuhgeddaboudit! The Oxford English Dictionary regularly updates to reflect English's evolution. The latest update includes a number of slang words — like YOLO, the acronym for "you ...

Language, like the humans who deploy it, has an organic quality: it grows, decays, ages, withers, and evolves. The Oxford English Dictionary, which is the definitive measure of the English language, ...