The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

The current versions of the definition of racism do not tell the full story and this may muddy the waters and limit people’s understanding of what racism is and how it can manifest in our systems and ...

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 ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

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As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...

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