A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s ...

The dictionary publisher said Monday that “polarization” is its 2024 word of the year, defining it as “division into two ...

The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into two sharply ...

Demure came close but was beaten out by a descriptor of one of the most tense election years in recent history ...

In 2003, Merriam-Webster decided to make “democracy” its first word of the year. Since then, the word — which, of course, ...

Merriam-Webster's word of the year and list of other top-searched words were influenced by politics, Taylor Swift, TikTok and ChatGPT.

The dictionary publisher said Americans from competing tribes looked up the definition to better understand divided politics ...

The winning word beat out finalists such as "demure," "pander," "totality," "fortnight," "allision" and "democracy" ...

The US' oldest dictionary, Merriam-Webster, a direct descendant of the pioneering 1806 dictionary by Noah Webster, has picked ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English ...