According to the Oxford Dictionaries blog, in the 1700s, the word “chip” in reference to food meant a slice or chunk of a ...

As the award celebrates its 20th anniversary, Fiona McPherson, a senior editor in the New Words team of the Oxford English ...

Americans living in separate realities are heading to the polls. They face an avalanche of misinformation about everything — and the conspiratorial mindset is open to it all.

Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general ...

A quarter century since we learned about ‘carbon footprints’, researchers say it’s time to change the conversation. View on ...

The answer to the “Silly as all get-out” clue in the Nov. 7 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle is “INANE.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, inane means lacking sense or meaning and is an adjective.

Brace yourself. I’m about to have a rant (before I do, as a highly trained journalist and consummate professional, rest assured that I do not ...

That the Labour backbench is not a drawer filled with especially sharp knives is a fact becoming clearer by the day. There’s ...

Lexicographers at Collins Dictionary put “brat” at the top of the list after looking at media sources, including social media, because the term has been “embraced so widely”. The dictionary said the ...

Collins Dictionary declared "brat" — the album title that became a summer-living ideal — its 2024 word of the year. The word, used by singer Charli XCX as the title of her sixth studio album, has been ...

That title has been made official as Collins Dictionary crowned “brat” — which is associated with chaotic behaviour — the ...