Erudite describes a person with deep, acquired knowledge, stemming from reflection and academic study, not just superficial ...

Research team unveils ProSyno, a context-free prompt-learning model that taps Wiktionary descriptions and a dynamic matching ...

Obfuscate stands out for its precision, relevance and critical force. It names a practice that shapes public life while offering readers a tool to challenge it.

It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

The Oxford University Press, which publishes the dictionary, announced that its Word of the Year this year is “rage bait,” which it defines as a noun meaning: “Online content deliberately designed to ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

“Rage bait” triumphed over “biohack” and “aura farming” to become Oxford's Word of the Year 2025. The two-syllable open-compound word refers to an attention-seeking form of online behavior that leads ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has named "parasocial" its Word of the Year for 2025, reflecting a significant shift in digital-age connections. This term describes one-sided emotional bonds with public ...

First Word in the Dictionary: The first word in most English dictionaries is “Aardvark.” It appears before all other words because it begins with double A (AA) , which alphabetically comes before ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

The new "Collegiate" also includes enhanced entries for some top lookups Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...