Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for "woman" in its dictionaries to include more positive ways to describe a female. Shutterstock (CNN) -- Even the dictionary can be sexist ...

Oxford University Press has changed the definition of the word "woman" in its dictionaries after an online petition called on them to remove "sexist" language. Oxford lexicographers examined ...

Urban Dictionary has made its name through user-submitted definitions, explaining words which normal dictionaries don't. While this freedom allows the site's users to explain the most vulgar of slang, ...

The Dictionary.com Chrome Extension makes going to a dictionary website redundant. Dictionary.com Extension is for everyone who isn’t blessed with a memory like the Oxford English Dictionary. If ...

Every year, students in Romania take a national exam to determine whether they will continue their education in high school or—if they fail to score high enough—in a trade school. In 2016, online ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

A screenshot of Google search results shows the meaning of "literally" now includes the incorrect definition of when "something is not literally true but is used for emphasis." (Google screenshot; red ...

While some of them might be enough to make you say "oof," the over 300 new words and definitions added to Dictionary.com during its most recent round of updates reflect the realities of our rapidly ...

After Vice President Joe Biden used the term "malarkey" in a 2012 debate, searches for the word in online dictionaries surged. Now that dictionaries are readily available with a mouse click or finger ...

Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for "woman" in its dictionaries to include more positive ways to describe a female. Shutterstock (CNN) -- Even the dictionary can be sexist ...

Even the dictionary can be sexist and out of date, especially when it comes to how a “woman” is described.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, ...