Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

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

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...