"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...

Six-seven or 6 7? Either way, the phrase popular among school-age children has been announced as Dictionary.com’s 2025 word of the year. The expression exploded online this year among members of ...

Logophiles are “devastated” after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years. The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. “Six-seven still hasn’t even peaked in its usage yet,” Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On Tuesday, Dictionary.com announced its own ...

Dictionary.com has crowned 67, pronounced "six-seven", as its word of the year. The word has become a viral sensation among school students and social media users. It beat other contenders, including ...

The winning word "has all the hallmarks of brainrot," according to the website Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

Are you greenwashing? How much sleep debt do you have? If you're unfamiliar with those terms you're probably not the only one, but they're now recognized by the most famous online dictionary.

“Afro-Latinx.” “Deadname.” “Janky.” These are just some of the many terms now on Dictionary.com. The dictionary website announced an update of more than 15,000 entries, refining and adding terms ...

As the English language evolves, dictionaries are always trying to keep up. Last week, Dictionary.com unveiled its latest update, which includes new words like “antifragile,” “forever chemicals,” ...