The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to ...

It is, as Fatsis puts it, “the most comprehensive extant repository of the history of American English.” When Noah Webster published his American Dictionary in 1828, he declared it “not only ...

Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves, founder and owner of Mili Mila Incorporated in Roxbury and author of two Cabo Verdean Creole ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

Oxford University Press India unveiled two new Marathi dictionaries, the Compact and Mini Marathi-English editions, on World ...

The dictionary features over 20,000 words and derivatives with their detailed translations in Kannada along with grammatical information on all English words.

So much happened in 2020 that not even the Word of the Year folks at the Oxford English Dictionary could come up with just one word to describe the past year; instead, the august dictionary folks ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...