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 ...

W hether you consider yourself a word nerd who’s always looking for new words in the dictionary or just enjoy a good ...

Kevin Durant and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary are enjoying the NBA Centel account on X that promotes made-up quotes and ...

Are Halloween traditions like seances and palm readings merely trivial entertainment or are we dabbling in forbidden ...

There are different ways to be smart, as Harvard psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner proposed in 1983 with his theory of multiple ...

From the “mean girls” of middle/high school to the athletic coaches who unnecessarily berate and abuse their players, ...

Depending upon your beliefs, being healed from your sins is the strongest healing power. Very important definitions and ...

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” host Shannon Bream asked Walz about his use of the word “socialism” during a “White ...

The Public Theater presents Deep History — interweaving 75,000 years of humanity, impending climate disaster, and an escape from Australian bushfires — to find humor and hope.

I am not a meteorologist by trade, nor have I ever played one on TV. As the weather outside trends cooler and the leaves turn ...

"The one constant of a vibrant living language is change," Gregory Barlow, president of Merriam-Webster, explained in the press release. "We continuously encounter new ways of describing the world ...

Webster’s Dictionary defines gerrymandering as “to divide or arrange (a territorial unit) into election districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage.” Issue 1 states that ...