10 latest words added to the Oxford English Dictionary (2025 edition)

The English language grows a little more every year. It becomes richer, warmer, and more diverse as people across the world create new words. It borrows expressions from other cultures or changes the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Here’s How the Oxford English Dictionary Chooses New Words

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

You Use This 3-Letter Word Every Day, But It Has 645 Meanings in English

A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word ...
Mental Floss

When McDonald's Went to War With the Dictionary

The fast food behemoth took issue with how the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defined ‘McJob.’ It was not a flattering description. The Oxford English Dictionary ...

The Slow Decline of Urban Dictionary

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

Using a dictionary

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...
The New York Times

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...
CNN

Oxford dictionaries change ‘sexist’ and outdated definitions of the word ‘woman’

Even the dictionary can be sexist and out of date, especially when it comes to how a “woman” is described. Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for “woman” in its dictionaries, ...