Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that ...

PARASOCIAL, meaning the link you feel to a star you do not know, has been named a dictionary’s word of the year. The term, ...

You probably have a nice leather-bound dictionary and wonder why you would ever need an online one. One thing: in a newsroom, dictionaries tend to grow legs and walk away. An online dictionary can ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

Cambridge Dictionary has revealed it’s word of the year for 2025: ‘parasocial’.‘Parasocial’ is defined as a connection ...

First the venerable Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, and then Merriam-Webster went with a suffix: -ism. Dictionary.com had recently sanctioned "fleek" and ...

1. When you open a dictionary to any two-page spread, you are usually looking up a word. It is usually the case, though, that your eye wanders. Words are tantalizing, and a dictionary page holds so ...