Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022 ... Here are 10 of our favorites for American audiences, which, taken ...

Like “heads” with cattle and “tua” with tables, it is still pronounced the same way as its progenitor word. But “you guys” has morphed into a new meaning: a blank, functional way of ...

Our lexicon is constantly growing – Merriam Webster added 200 new words this year alone – with some already-existing words such as demure and sigma, for instance, taking on new slang meanings.

Words sometimes have two meanings, as Led Zeppelin sang in “Stairway to Heaven.” And indeed they often do. Especially, words can acquire new meanings and lose old ones. For example, ...

The company released the addition of 690 new words and meanings that have been added to the dictionary as of September 2023.

But more interesting than the new words, I think, are the old words that have gotten new meanings: words such as “cloud” and “tablet” and “catfish,” with very long pre-Internet histories.

Eight out of 10 Americans say they use slang, but half admit to not even knowing the meaning of the slang terms ... Slang often leads to new words being added to the dictionary.

The word “girl” used to mean a child of either sex. When we use it today to mean a child of the female sex, we’re not diluting its true nongendered meaning. We’re using its new one.

Definition: “The simultaneous use of an area of land for farming and for electrical generation using photovoltaic solar panels” Fun fact: This new technology helps fight climate change by ...

Words get new meanings while losing old ones. 24/7 Tempo used the Oxford University and Dictionary.com collaboration Lexico.com’s list of Archaic Words That Used To Be Common In English to ...